IX Web Hosting MySQL Hosting Reviews
MySQL is free open-source relational database management systems (RDBMS) first created in 1994, licensed under GNU General Public License (only the community edition). It is powerful database server with many features. Databases, inserts, selects can be done with SQL (Structured Query Language). The Free version is the most popular database system on the internet. It is installed on millions of web servers in so called LAMP stack (Linux Apache MySQL PHP). Its popularity have grown in the last years due to the very popular web applications (WordPress – weblog software, Drupal – Content Management System/Script – CMS, Joomla – another also very popular CMS, phpbb – a forum/community software that use MySQL as their backend – for storing user data, settings, permissions, and even binary files. Also very popular corporations and websites use MySQL (e.g Google, Facebook, Wikipedia and many others). Several tools have spawned to ease the adminstration of mysql databases. Such tool is phpmyadmin written in PHP. The latest version of MySQL is 5. Currently the company behind this database system was recently bought by Oracle corporation, a move that some people think that it will hurt its development.
Nowadays almost every web hosting company (if not all) comes with PHP and MySQL in bundle, including IXWebHosting. This wordpress blog is a test and it shows that MySQL and PHP are setup very nice on ix web hosting. Databases can be created via cPanel and users can be added also via cPanel (with permissions setup).