[wp-forums] Shared Hosting questions

[TechGnome]

Here's been my experience:
Any host worth their salt does NOT let the user create databases with 
any name they choose. If they have done it right, then they (the user) 
has to use their CPanel (or what ever control panel) to create the 
database. Normally the host will use the user name as part of the 
database name, plus some sort of additional ID in case ChimpA creates 
more than one DB. If there are hosts out there letting their users 
create what ever DB name they want w/o some kind of check, then it maybe 
time for a new host. To do otherwise is asking for trouble.

-tg

Handy 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=3 for
> example).
>
> Or am I totally worrying about something that wouldn't happen in the real
> world?
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