Hi there, I'm using Access together with a MySQL database as the backend. Whenever I hosted the database with a shared hosting provider (remote access via ODBC), the connection performance was just not sufficient even though my queries are not that complex. In some tables we have a few thousand records. The server hosting concept is nice, as different users can access the database from any place, but the queries took so long to run... - for better speed, I changed the setup to a local network hosting. The performance now is much better at the cost of no accessibility from outside the network. Can you recommend a setup where I have better accessibility and high performance? Thank you for any recommendations. Frank