When you use a script-driven application for your website, any data which both you and the website users produce will be stored in a database - a collection of data, which is organized in cells and tables for simplier and easier reading and writing. The latter is done by using special software called database management system and one of the most popular ones around the globe is MySQL. A lot of script apps are designed to work with MySQL because it is convenient to use, it functions really well on a website hosting server and it's universal as it can work with popular web programming languages (PHP, Java, Perl, Python) and on various server OS (Linux, UNIX, Windows). There are thousands of scripts that use MySQL, including extremely popular ones like Moodle, Joomla™ and WordPress.

MySQL 5 Databases in Cloud Hosting

The in-house built Hepsia CP included with our Linux cloud hosting will permit you to manage all your MySQL databases easily. It takes only a couple of mouse clicks to set up a new database and with one more click you may back it up if you want to have a copy before you update your Internet site, for example. You will be able to modify the password, delete a database or allow remote access to it just as fast. For the latter option you can pick the IP addresses which will be able to connect to the database remotely so as to ensure that unauthorized people will not be able to access your info. If you want to see the database content or edit any cell or table from the Control Panel, you can use phpMyAdmin, an excellent web-based interface. Using any of our script-driven apps shall also be easy as our script installer will create a database for the script which you have picked automatically.