If you use a script-driven application for your site, any data which both you and the site users generate shall be stored inside a database - an accumulation of info, which is organized in cells and tables for simpler reading and writing. The latter is accomplished by employing special software referred to as database management system and one of the most widely used ones world-wide is MySQL. A number of script applications are built to work with MySQL since it’s convenient to use, it functions really well on a server and it's also universal as it can perform with famous web programming languages (Java, PHP, Perl, Python) and on several web server Operating Systems (Linux, UNIX, Windows). There are hundreds of scripts that use MySQL, including really popular ones for instance WordPress, Moodle and Joomla.

MySQL 5 Databases in Shared Hosting

The in-house built Hepsia CP offered with our Linux shared packages allows you to take care of all your MySQL databases effortlessly. It takes only a couple of mouse clicks to create a brand 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 website, for instance. You shall be able to change the password, erase a database or enable remote access to it just as easily. For the latter option you may pick the IP addresses that will be able to connect to the database remotely so as to make sure that unauthorized people shall not be able to access your info. If you wish to view the database content or change any cell or table using the Control Panel, you should use phpMyAdmin, an efficient web-based interface. Using any one of our script-driven apps shall also be easy as our script installer will create a database for the script which you have selected automatically.