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Gist of this site is to discuss my personal interest in web databases that are cool.

So what makes a cool web database? A few examples of a particularly cool web database (very large enterprise category): yachtworld.com, autotrader.com (carmax.com, carvana.com) and craigslist.org.

These are fancy and functional. It takes a lot to maintain but if they are cool the database system is mostly on auto-pilot. These are large enterprises and even on auto-pilot require constant attention and maintenance and fail-over backups and load balancing. If all the back-end IT work goes smoothly then the sites are seamless for the end user / web client. These sites have been seamless for the end user for many years with virtually no detectable down-time (striving for 99% guaranteed up-time requires extremely robust & intricately designed systems (and these have been updated so well over the years that there really is virtually no down-time - 365/24/7 systems), user data backup systems, the right data center for the job, the modern data center, the updated data center equipment and large IT departments with top notch highly paid IT professionals.

For small and medium businesses, there are potentially some scaled down cool databases... that are not quite as vast in terms of initial planning and design. Also, these db's don't contain anywhere near the quantity of "user input" and "data entry" and "post data entry management". It is merging sales/marketing with data/images (and videos) the end-user uploads to create a facilitated transaction for the customer as well as a facilitated transaction for the seller. Progressively improved facilitated transactions is what the web systems and db systems admin work on in a cumulative manner.

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As for my personal interest in smaller scale cool databases - the design structure of a cool database, counter-intuitively, can be quite similar with small and medium business ventures. I'm using PostgreSQL, Apache 2 webserver and PHP-PDO on a Linux Virtual Machine. So if I were looking to hire a database expert, they would have to have many of these components on their resume and "the more experience with these the better". It's complicated because you have system management, web-server management, database management, programming initial site, maintenance programming, image management, customer support backend and fail-over backup planning. Often the web-master additionally has to program/maintain the HR component also and in 2025 let's be real, the web facet of the HR component is majorly significant. Can you make these small and medium tasks instead of large tasks? That is the challenge.

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