phpMyAdmin with 300,000+ records?

[marms]

Need to put over 300,000 record table on a website. Now my concern is importing it and managing it on MySQL using one of these average PHP/MySQL shared hosting setups where you can only manage through phpMyAdmin. I had a problem with this one site when I have to import only 4000 records using the csv file upload feature with phpMyAdmin. It would time out before it was done. I am afraid of how to deal with 300,000 records.

My other option is going with a web hosting company that offers MS SQL Server, but I would rather not because I like the web based admin of phpMyAdmin.

Question. Does anyone else manage/import MySQL tables with 300,000 + records through phpMyAdmin and not have a problem with it? If so, what web hosting company are you going through? Or should I just bite the bullet and go with MS SQL Server for tables this large?

Thanks for any advice

[TTT]

if script time outs after 30s, use set_time_limit()

[mtimdog]

You could also ask the host to import it on the commandline as that would be faster. You wouldn't want your host confronting you with why you brought the server to a halt for five minutes.