Is x10hosting for me?

[rts3data]

I'm looking for a place where I can host a database(no website needed) to mimic a leaderboard for a game I'm making. I've already set it up on x10hosting and everything works wonderfully, but that's with testing. I'm wondering if I might reach some limits once the game gets popular

The game could potentially reach something like this: 600 users making a simplish SQL request on the database and the PHP returning a JSON string of ~15,000 characters(not returning the whole leaderboard just sections). All of this maybe twice a minute per user on average at peak time for the game.

However the user may also choose to download a string I have in a SQL cell that could be 50K-130K long(occasionally longer). This I would imagine each user doing once a minute.

Each row in the database would have about 9 columns, each cell being fairly short(5-12 characters) except for that one cell that may be 50k-130k long. I'm predicting after a year I may have 100k-200k of these rows.

All of this is the highest traffic I am predicting after a year, it could very well be less than this. Assuming I had a premium account, does all of this sound reasonable, particularly in data size and resource/bandwith use? I'd hate to be suspended and have to find a new host.

 

[Anna]

If you're only after a mysql host, then no x10hosting is not for you. We're a host that supplies space for creating a website. There are dedicated mysql hosts out there, and from what you tell us that would probably be what you need.

ToS requires that you have a working website set up within 1 week. Also you won't be able to connect to a database on our servers from any place outside of our network.

 

[caftpx10]

On free hosting, here's the problem with this:

• You must host a functional site at least (see the ToS);
• incoming and outgoing connections to the database outside the server are blocked;
• the resources set could be a problem.

This does sound like something that's more for paid hosting. I can't imagine all of this being available on a free service. Even if there were to be such service, it's likely to be like a trial..

 

[rts3data]

Ah that sucks, I had everything working great too. Im not planning on having a website and actually dont want anyone knowing the website name. Thanks for the replies.