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 are stored in text files (with a .dtb format) or PHP files (with a .inc format) in the data/ directory.