I don't know if this goes here but.. anyways
I use tripod.co.uk as my server, because they gave PHP and MySQL support. I use a Submit News script that uses a .txt file asa databsae, and a counter. which uses the same thing. After a while of configuring the Submit News script, it still doesn't write into the .txt file.. same with the counter.
I think they wont let you use:
fopen()
fwrite()
fclose()
What do you think?