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Hi all, I just registered to webfaction using the birthday promo, yay! Right now I'm moving all my files and database from my previous hosting, dreamhost. I found out that the database name limitation in webfaction is really limitating. I'm using donnykurnia as my username, so with underscore, it will leave only 4 character for database name. When I'm registering, I do not see any notes about this, because if I see it, I might choose shorter username. In dreamhost, I could set the database name longer than 16 character, so I believe this is not the limitation of MySQL. Could webfaction do something about this? |
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This is well-requested and the new databases UI that we are working on will get rid of the limitation of having to have the username at the start of your database name. Great to hear that. When will we could get this feature? We don't have an ETA yet, but it should be sooner rather than later. When we do roll it out, we will announce it on our blog! In the meanwhile, it would be a service to new users to indicate where and how their username is used and what it constrains, before they pick a username. I ran into the same issues as donnykurnia. Yep, this was really confusing for me too. It has been over a year, any update on the ETA of the change? The change was announced January 10, 2013 in our blog (http://blog.webfaction.com/2013/01/new-databases-management-interface/) Thanks for the reply. I looked at the video. My Dashboard does not look the same and when I created a new database it is created using the "accountname with underscore" prefix. How do I start using the "new" UI/Control Panel? You don't need to do anything to start using the new panel - it's live for all of our customers at this time. What you see in that video is actually an older version of the panel. The current panel does not suggest any default naming scheme when you create a new database, but databases that are created automatically by our application installers will still use the "accountname_dbname" scheme. Is there any chance of changing the application installers to allow you to name the database when installing it? Our current installer system doesn't allow for that specifically. However, if you want to write your own installer, you could use the "extra info" parameter for that purpose.
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It is all about conventions. you could also use the first 3 letters in unix style as abbreviations: for example, if you need different customer or user databases, they night be called:
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