When you use a script-driven application for your site, any info which both you and the website users produce will be stored inside a database - an accumulation of information, which is structured in cells and tables for simpler reading and writing. The latter is carried out through special software referred to as database management system and one of the most popular ones world-wide is MySQL. A large amount of script applications are built to work with MySQL since it’s user-friendly, it works exceptionally well on a web hosting server and it's also universal as it can work with famous web programming languages (Java, PHP, Perl, Python) and on several web server Operating Systems (Windows, UNIX, Linux). There are loads of scripts that use MySQL, including very popular ones for example WordPress, Moodle and Joomla™.
MySQL 5 Databases in Shared Hosting
The in-house built Hepsia CP that comes with our shared hosting will enable you to control all your MySQL databases with ease. It requires just a couple of mouse clicks to create a new database and with just one more click you could back it up if you'd like to have a copy before you update your Internet site, for instance. You'll be able to modify the password, delete a database or permit remote access to it just as easily. For the latter option you'll be able to pick the IP addresses that'll be able to connect to the database remotely so as to ensure that unauthorized people will not be able to access your information. If you would like to see the database content or modify any cell or table from the CP, you should use phpMyAdmin, a powerful web-based interface. Using any of our script-driven apps will also be easy as our script installer will set up a database for the script which you have chosen automatically.
MySQL 5 Databases in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to use any script that requires MySQL with all of our Linux semi-dedicated hosting plans since we have the most current version set up on all machines - MySQL 5. Through our in-house built Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, you shall be able to quickly set up or erase a database, change its password, back it up with a single mouse click or check the hourly and daily access stats for it. If you want to handle the content of a database directly, not by using a script, you'll have two options - either working with the web interface of the phpMyAdmin tool, that is available inside the CP, or using an application set up on your personal computer as we support remote database access. For the aforementioned option, you will have to include your IP address through the hosting account first as an added level of protection against unauthorized access to your data.