If you use a script-driven platform for your Internet site, it stores its information within a database and the bigger the website gets, the more data it gathers. As an example, if you launch an online store, the size of the database the e-commerce script employs shall increase when you add more goods. Exactly the same applies for a forum script - the more users that register and the more responses they submit, the larger the database. If your sites become popular or you just want to add more content, this could become a problem in case that your web hosting account has limited database space for storage. The particular effect of hitting the limit shall be depends on the script - the site could perform adequately, but you may not be able to add any new content; the internet site could be displayed with errors; or, in the most severe scenario, the entire website could simply go offline.
MySQL Database Storage in Cloud Hosting
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MySQL Database Storage in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The Linux semi-dedicated hosting which we offer you use a custom cloud platform where the files, databases and e-mail messages are managed by their own clusters of web servers. To put it differently, if you use this kind of plan, you’ll no longer have to worry about the size of your databases for the reason that there's virtually no limit for the database space - we can keep adding as many hard drives or whole servers to the cluster as required. For that reason, any MySQL-based web site that you host inside the semi-dedicated account could grow without any limits. With the phpMyAdmin instrument, which could be accessed through the Hepsia website hosting CP, you'll be able to import or export your databases with a couple of mouse clicks irrespective of how massive they are. If you lack previous experience with such matters, you could always ask our technical support for help.