Hi,

I now this is going to seem like a long shot but I am need of some cheapish web hosting (around $40-$50pm) to my exact specifications. Doesn't sound so bad?? Wait until you read the specs.

I would like Windows NT/2000 hosting running (wait for it) Apache web sever!! With PHP 4 instaled as a module. I would also like a MS SQL Server 7/2000 database. I would like to be able to access the database from the MS managment console on my computer. I would like around 100-150Mb space and a reasonable amount of bandwidth (size and bandwidth are not that important if the other specs are met).

I know it looks like I am asking for the world, but I have been developing PHP programs for some time using the module version, and I want to move an e-commerce engine to Windows for MS SQL because lets face it MySQL just isn't up to e-commerce. The reason why I want the above is because I dont want to rewrite the scripts to run under the CGI version because it is crap.

Does anybody know where I can get this????

Many thanks in advance

Ian

Would you be opposed to having the actual site running on a Unix or Linux server and the database running on a Windows 2000 machine with Microsoft SQL Server? I could see that as one way to get what you want since Apache and PHP are not known to work as well on Windows as they do in Unix environments.

Best regards,
Frank Rietta

That sounds fine, do you offer something like that? Also how easy would it be to connect to the MS SQL sever? Could I still use the mssql_connect() function in PHP or would I have to use ODBC and something else?

I believe in PHP if the server is remote, you can still use the same directives. Such as mssql_connect() , but you would specify the remote host address as part of the connect string. I may be wrong, but I think thats how it works.

Yea, you should be able to just use mssql_connect and specify the IP address/url of the SQL server. I have done it with MySQL and I am sure it would work on MS SQL.