Linking Databases in GoDaddy Ultimate Hosting

  • websitepros

    (@websitepros)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    Does anyone know if it’s possible to link databases together to store media files. Reason is that GoDaddy offers unlimited DBs but they are limited to 1GB. 1GB goes pretty fast for the classifieds site that I want to start.

    If my site has 10K users who are allowed 2.5MBs for pictures to upload (goes to DB storage), then that’s 25GBs.

    No point in unlimited DBs if I can’t use them or am limited to 1GB. Anyone know a way around this? Like linking DBs to automatically flow over to next once one is full? TIA!

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  • catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    You can try these options:

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/hyperdb/
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/shardb/

    But… I’d really suggest not storing images in the database. That’s the worse way possible to store binary files.

    Out-of-the-box, WordPress stores images in the file system, and only stores the reference to the image in the database, so if your classifieds plugin is doing anything else, it’s really not doing it right.

    jack randall

    (@theotherlebowski)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    if you’re looking to store content like video, images and music in large amounts then look at a CDN (content delivery network) server like Amazon S3 with cloudfront. takes a bit of configuring and getting your head around but it could speed up your site and make your life easier…

    Thread Starter websitepros

    (@websitepros)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks for the replies! I’m not a coder so always learning on the go. I use a PremiumPress responsive classifieds theme. Not sure where the images are stored, I thought it all goes to the database on GoDaddy?

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