Let's say it one more time, GuppY does not require the use of an database like MySQL.

This provides a great flexibility and many advantages :

• almost all Internet hosts can be chosen (they just need to offer the PHP scripting language in which GuppY is written).

• there is no need for a very sophisticated knowledge in installing a database (please refer to the very simple installation procedure of GuppY).

• the display of pages is highly accelerated as the database management is usually the bottle neck of the Internet hosts.

• bug correction in tracking hits.

• The information managed by GuppY is stored in text files (with a .dtb format) or PHP files (with a .inc format) in the data/ directory.