[wp-forums] Shared Hosting questions

[Geoff Johnson]

On 3/31/06, Handy <handy.solo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So... I don't know much about shared hosting.  My experience is all with
> owning the box, regardless of where it ends up.  Thus the questions.
>
> When I see the "omg help my db disappeared" type questions, I can't help
> but
> wonder... in a shared environment, with multiple dbs in an install of
> mysql,
> what happens if chimpB created db named "wordpress" when chimpA already
> had
> a db by that name?
>
> Is that something we should watch for somehow?  I see some odd support
> posts
> every now and then that seem to hint that the poster somehow lost their db
> -
> or permissions to it (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/67245?replies=3for
> example).
>
> Or am I totally worrying about something that wouldn't happen in the real
> world?



My first instinct would be user-error (sometimes aggravated by a poor
interface), followed closely by hacking -- on a shared host, if your
wp-config.php file is readable by the server, it is almost certainly
readable by your neighbors.

-geoff