[Sebastian]

anyone telling you they have attachments on a different server, db on another and web on another is probably BSing you.

why? for one, not your average coder can do it, and even if they did, it would most likely not work with vb permissions. again, it certainly possible, just not with permissions and it would require a sh!t load of hacking to the attachment file..

the ONLY real way it would be possible is to have php files on one server and the db/attachments on another.. that is possible.. but there is only one problem.. the server SHOULD be on the same network, meaning connected to the web server via 100mbit ethernet link to the db server. using host.mydomain.com in the mysql hostname is going to give you nothing but trouble: TCP overhead. if the web and db are on two different networks then you're going to experience slow downs.