Hi guys. I have a serious question that I didn't know where else to place on the forum.

I haven't worked much with DBs or PHP/ASP, but I'm interested if there's a way to prevent your data from being ripped, most easily by someone at the company hosting your website.

Since the DB is publicly searchable and such, there's no real way of preventing someone from scraping it, and regarding hosting I guess the only way is having your own server inaccessible phyisicaly to others. And what when a part of the DB holds info like user accounts?

Or there's maybe a much much simpler way that I, as a noob, amm not aware of.

So anyone with any ideas or thoughts, feel free to post. I'm not looking for anything specific.