When you use a script-driven app for your website, any data that both you and the site users generate shall be stored inside a database - a collection of data, which is structured in cells and tables for simplier and easier reading and writing. The latter is accomplished by employing special software known as database management system and one of the most popular ones around the globe is MySQL. A large amount of script applications are designed to work with MySQL as it's user-friendly, it performs really well on a web server and it's universal as it can perform with widely used web programming languages (PHP, Perl, Python, Java) and on a number of web server OS (Windows, Linux, UNIX). There are thousands of scripts that use MySQL, including extremely popular ones like Moodle, Joomla™ and WordPress.
MySQL 5 Databases in Shared Hosting
Our shared hosting will permit you to host MySQL-driven sites without any difficulty as our cloud platform has the latest management system version installed. You'll be able to set up, remove and control your databases with ease through our custom-made Hepsia Control Panel. If you wish to migrate an Internet site from another hosting provider, you should use the phpMyAdmin tool which you could access via Hepsia, or you can connect remotely once you've permitted this feature for your IP address. In the same way you could also edit specific cells or tables in any of your databases. Setting up a backup is just as uncomplicated and takes only a click on the Backup button for a specific database. This feature will allow you to keep a copy of a website on your PC or to export the content of a certain database, modify it on your end using some software, and then import it back.
MySQL 5 Databases in Semi-dedicated Servers
You'll be able to use any script that requires MySQL with each of our semi-dedicated servers given that we have the latest version installed on all web servers - MySQL 5. Via our in-house built Hepsia web hosting Control Panel, you shall be able to easily create or delete a database, modify its password, back it up with just a single click or check the hourly and daily access statistics for it. If you want to manage the content of a database directly, not via a script, you'll have 2 options - either employing the web interface of the phpMyAdmin tool, that's available in the CP, or using an app set up on your laptop or computer considering the fact that 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 security against unauthorized access to your info.