Is it common to have stored procedures disabled on MySQL managed hosting plans?

Question

I'm building an app that I think would benefit from the use of MySQL stored procedures. I know stored procedures have a bad reputation, but I think they suit my application well. Using stored procedures would reduce the number of queries per request significantly (mostly inserts), as well as allow me to leverage the procedures across multiple implementations of this software.

I think the software will benefit. My concern however, is that pushing functionality into stored procedures may make it harder for users to deploy the software on shared hosting services. Is it common practice to expect users to have stored procedure capability (i.e. allow scripts to create and run stored procedures)?

Edit: This application is intended for my end user to deploy on her own.

Answer 1

I would note that the ability to run stored procedures is a requirement for host of the database for the application into your user requirements documentation if you have a worry about it. Often stored procedures are avoided to allow for different database backends as the different flavors of SQL needed might mean that you have to create different stored procs for each vendor (Complex procs especially tend to use database specific commands). But you seem to be requiring MySQL only anyway, so I would just note it as a system requirement and go on.