8.2.1. General information about MySQL

MySQL is relational database management system. MySQL is available on hosting in two variants: as a part of shared or business hosting service and as a standalone service.

Advantages

Advantages of MySQL as a standalone service:

  • Compared to shared hosting:
    • No limits on the number of tables, the size of one database and the total size of all databases, as on shared hosting.
    • No limit on the number of CPU minutes.
  • Compared to business hosting:
    • You can configure access restrictions for individual IP addresses.
    • Using a standalone MySQL service will free up business hosting resources to run scripts (on business hosting, resources are shared between the web server and MySQL).
  • Any database names and usernames can be used, without the mandatory prefix.
  • Replication is available.

Version

MySQL 8.4 is used.

Plans

Available plans differ:

  • Number of available processor cores.
  • Amount of RAM.
  • Capacity of disk space.

While using MySQL plan can be changed.

Nuances of usage

In order for a site on hosting to connect to the database in an instance, that site must have installed PHP version 7.4 or higher (see official PHP documentation).

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