Knowledge Base

Yes, we do offer phpMyAdmin. You will need both your MySQL username and password to login at:

https://my.rhombic.net/phpmyadmin

Please use our copy of phpMyAdmin rather than installing your own. Our copy of phpMyAdmin is maintained for security, and optimized for speed, with many of phpMyAdmin’s more complicated features enabled (e.g. linked tables, which allow PDF generation).

No, we do not impose any limitation on MySQL database size.

However, we do request that you do not store binary data, such as pictures and images, in your MySQL databases. Databases are meant to kept textual, relational data. High-performance databases like MySQL begin to lose their performance quickly with huge records, such as the ones containing binary data.

If you are storing a large amount of binary data in a database, Rhombic Networks’ reserves the right to call into effect our clause of excessive usage in our terms of service.

If you would like more information about why binary data in relational databases is bad, a good article to read is: Serving Images From A Database.

At the moment, we do not support use of SSI.

We recommend that you use the much faster PHP to handle including files in your pages.

Yes, we can provide Apache’s log files for your domains hosted with Rhombic Networks.

This is useful if you would like to perform your own statistics analysis.

We use Apache’s combined log format.

You may need to store passwords within files on your Rhombic Network account, such as MySQL passwords, HTTP authentication passwords, etc.

All Rhombic Network clients have system users that are part of the group “users”. Because a web server process will either use the user “www-data” or your own system user to access files, you can use standard UNIX permissions to prevent access to sensitive files.

To protect a file secret.php, run the commands through SSH:

Doing this will prevent other Rhombic Networks users from being able to snoop your passwords and private data, but still be viewable or usable by a web server.