If you use a script-driven application for your site, any information that both you and the website users produce shall be stored inside a database - an accumulation of information, that is structured in cells and tables for simplier and easier reading and writing. The latter is carried out by using special software referred to as database management system and one of the most famous ones around the globe is MySQL. A wide range of script apps are built to work with MySQL since it’s easy to work with, it performs exceptionally well on a server and it's also universal as it can work with common web programming languages (Python, Perl, PHP, Java) and on a variety of server OS (Windows, Linux, UNIX). There are loads of scripts which use MySQL, including popular ones for example Moodle, Joomla™ and WordPress.

MySQL 5 Databases in Shared Web Hosting

The in-house built Hepsia Control Panel that comes with our shared web hosting plans will enable you to manage all your MySQL databases effortlessly. It takes just a couple of mouse clicks to create a completely new database and with only one more click you can back it up if you would like to have a copy before you update your Internet site, for example. You will be able to change the password, delete a database or enable remote access to it just as easily. For the latter option you can pick the IP addresses which will be able to connect to the database remotely to ensure that unauthorized people shall not be able to access your data. If you want to see the database content or edit any cell or table from the Control Panel, you may use phpMyAdmin, an effective web-based interface. Using any one of our script-driven apps will also be super easy as our script installer will create a database for the script that you have chosen automatically.