PHP Blog with 'Flat' file system

[episodic]

I'm using a ubercheap (free) webhosting that has PHP but no SQL access. I've set up a blogging script that seems great and uses 'flat' files (plain text) instead of a database.

Any comments on that kind of setup?

 

[yllus]

If it does what you want it to do, it doesn't matter.

Theoretically, stats tracking, commenting and searching all become a little harder to code/do. But a well-written program can still do it all.

 

[BCYL]

Performance... Flat files data access will be much slower than a real database...

Also, you might wanna look at SQLite... It's a SQL database implemented using a flat file structure, so you access your data using the SQL interface but the database itself is stored using flat files...