Dang, this is an idea I explored doing about 4 years ago (using PostgreSQL as the engine and Sun Thumpers for the hardware). Underlines that execution is everyt

Dang, this is an idea I explored doing about 4 years ago (using PostgreSQL as the engine and Sun Thumpers for the hardware). Underlines that execution is everything... My main business concern was whether people who were already savvy enough to run a website wouldn't just as soon run their own database server (MySQL or PostgreSQL), which ain't really rocket science.