Database Hosting: MySQL Web Hosting
Even if you don’t know what a MySQL relational database is, you’re probably already using one on your website! Odds are, if you want your website to interact with users, store useful information that you can use at a later time, and have a unique way to remember content on your site, you need a web hosting company that offers MySQL databases.
What is MySQL?
MySQL (pronounced My-ess-kew-ell) is open source database software that you can download and adapt to fit your business’ specific data storage needs. It is also the most popular database software on the web, so it’s highly adaptable and recognized as a flexible, reliable and speedy way to keep everything in its place. It is often used with PHP, the HTML-compatible programming language.
Where do I get it?
If your web host doesn’t offer MySQL, they’re living in the dark ages before a website could interact with its users. At Lunarpages Web Hosting, MySQL databases come free on all our plans and you have the ability to create an unlimited amount of databases, which is a great resource for storing valuable information. Just click on MySQL from Cpanel to activate MySQL and build your databases.
What is a relational database and why do I want one?
A database is simply a repository for information – a storage area. A relational database stores information in separate places (tables), and then compiles data quickly from these tables. Because of this flexibility to access specific data, your site can quickly become more interactive and more user-friendly.
If you’ve ever visited Amazon.com, you’ve seen one of the most popular representations of a good relational database in action. After you create your Amazon.com profile, every time you login you are greeted with a variety of items you may enjoy or have purchased in the past. Like Amazon, any MySQL website can deliver a different homepage to each visitor, customized to their behavioral patterns and past buying activity. This technology not only makes your site more interactive but more welcoming, friendly, and effective.
With MySQL hosting, you can also simplify routine data maintenance chores, leaving more time to focus on running your business and your website, an easy way to cut costs and budget funds.
Don’t know MySQL coding?
That’s one of the best things about MySQL – the software is screen-driven, adaptable and intuitive, enabling even novice users to add that all-important interactivity to even the simplest web site. In other words, if you’re building the next Amazon or just the next blog, MySQL can help and do so without tasking you out. If you get stuck, MySQL.com and hundreds of other websites are there to offer advice, tutorials, and manuals, as are Lunarpages technicians who are experts in MySQL web building.
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