> If you do 'df -k .' anywhere under your homedir
> or 'df -k ~' from anywhere then it'll be showing you
> available space for you personally.

Ah, thanks, that works great.

> It was 50MB blocks w/ 50MB min assigned on the old server
> while the space included was 200MB; I don't think it was
> ever at 40MB.  It was I think 25MB when overall included
> space was 100MB.  The change to 100MB db block size is
> commenserate with the bump to 500MB included overall.

OK, I guess I mis-remembered the minimum MySQL size on the
old shell. Thanks for confirming the 100MB on new shell.
Earlier today I moved /var/mail/rem from the old machine to
a file inside my homedir on new machine, and I'm now at 43%
(using 219008, available 292992), so I have plenty of elbow
room, so I'd like to request a minimal (100MB) database at
this time.

> Generally each user can request one database at no charge,
> and by convention we use the username as the database
> name, so it'd be 'rem' in your case.

OK.

> Multiple apps can share one database as long as they use
> disjoint table names.

The concept of an app in this context is fuzzy, since each
appliation is a whole bunch of different scripts that share
one or more tables within the database. I think the main
thing is to make sure the various scripts that share a any
particular table are written in a consistent way with
respect to the columns (fields) within that table. The more
interesting problem is synchronizing updates to a table when
more than one remote user is using the same application at
the same time. Generally MySQL handles that nicely, forcing
each update to wait until the previous update has finished.
Other than bugs in the scripts, the only interesting problem
is a logical update that requires more than one table update
to occur with that table locked against all other processes
trying to update it simultaneously. This is normally handled
by "transactions", where a process requests
START TRANSACTION, then does several updates, the either
requests COMMIT or ROLLBACK. The free PHP/MySQL
providers I've been pracicing on don't support
"transactions". They have that **disabled** in their PHP
implementation. Does MySQL here have "transactions" enabled
or disabled? In case you don't know what I'm talking about:
 <http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/commit.html>

> You just ask when you'd like it setup.

Any time now, minimum-size (100MB) MySQL database.

After I get it, when I want to connect to it (from PHP most
likely, eventually also from CMUCL if I can figure out how),
I need to know what host name or IP number and port number,
also what user and password, to use in the connection
command.
 $host = "...what...";
 $port = "...what...";
 $user = "...what...";
 $password = "...what...";
 $dbLink = mysql_connect($host . ":" . $port, $user, $password);
 $database = "rem";
 $res = @mysql_select_db($database);