MySQL and PHP Support Hard to Come By

Why?

[inuwolf]

I don't understand why so few free services offer MySQL databases, and when then do, it's usually limited to one. I mean, plenty of free sites are willing to give away up to 1 GB of space for all kinds of files (images especially), but why can't they offer more than one simple table? Is it because there is just a lot less demand, or maybe because they'd like to present it as a special added feature just for show (like domain parking, which can be done by anyone). Or am I just completely missing the point?

[edited by: ergophobe at 10:22 pm (utc) on Mar. 6, 2005]
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[dmmh]

ey, these things cost money to run, harddisk space isnt an issue since its relatively cheap nowadays. think of all the support thats going to be involved, patching of servers etc etc

and btw, one database isnt the same as one table, one DB can hold countless tables

offer more than one simple table