When you use a script-driven app for your website, any data that both you and the site users produce will be stored inside a database - an accumulation of info, that's organized in cells and tables for simplier and easier reading and writing. The latter is accomplished through special software called database management system and one of the most widely used ones globally is MySQL. A number of script applications are created to work with MySQL since it is easy to use, it performs exceptionally well on a server and it's universal as it can perform with well-known web programming languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Java) and on numerous hosting server OS (Windows, UNIX, Linux). There are literally thousands of scripts that use MySQL, including extremely popular ones like WordPress, Moodle and Joomla™.

MySQL 5 Databases in Cloud Web Hosting

The in-house built Hepsia Control Panel that comes with our cloud web hosting will allow you to manage all your MySQL databases effortlessly. It requires only a couple of clicks to set up a completely new database and with only one more click you may back it up if you'd like to have a copy before you update your Internet site, for instance. You'll be able to change the password, erase a database or enable remote access to it just as fast. For the latter option you'll be able to choose the IP addresses that'll be able to connect to the database remotely to ensure that unauthorized people will not be able to access your data. If you want to see the database content or edit any cell or table via the CP, you can use phpMyAdmin, an effective web-based interface. Using any of our script-driven apps shall also be super easy as our script installer will set up a database for the script you have picked out automatically.

MySQL 5 Databases in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to use any script that requires MySQL with any of our Linux semi-dedicated packages due to the fact that we have the newest version installed on all web servers - MySQL 5. Via our in-house built Hepsia web hosting CP, you shall be able to easily set up or remove a database, change its password, back it up with a single click or check out the hourly and daily access stats for it. If you'd like to handle the content of a database directly, not via a script, you shall have two options - either employing the web interface of the phpMyAdmin tool, that is available in the Control Panel, or using an application set up on your computer since we support remote database access. For the aforementioned option, you'll have to include your IP address from the web hosting account first as an extra level of safety against unauthorized access to your info.