InnoDB is a popular database engine for the MySQL database management system. It’s an alternative to the default engine – MyISAM, and it has got lots of upsides that make it the preferred engine for numerous script-powered apps, such as Magento and Joomla™, which have switched to InnoDB permanently. For instance, adding immense data volumes will be much faster with InnoDB, because it locks only one row to accomplish a certain task, not the entire table, which makes the engine perfect for scalable applications. It also supports foreign keys and transactions – these refer to the way in which the info is tackled. Put simply, adding new or editing existent data will either be fully completed, or will be aborted and the procedure will be rolled back in case a given issue shows up during the process, so the content that remains in the database won’t be damaged.
InnoDB in Hosting
While InnoDB is either not available or a paid upgrade with many other hosting service providers, it’s part of the standard set of services that we are offering with our hosting packages. In case you’d like to use an open-source script-powered web application that requires InnoDB in particular, in order to be activated and to function properly, you will not experience any impediments because the database storage engine is available on our custom-built cloud web hosting platform. Irrespective of whether you set up a brand new database and install an application manually or make use of our 1-click app installer tool, InnoDB will be selected automatically by our platform as the default engine if the given app requires InnoDB rather than MyISAM. In addition to the outstanding crash recovery that InnoDB is offering, we also store daily database backups, so we can easily restore any MySQL database in your shared web hosting account.
InnoDB in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you create a brand-new MySQL database through the Control Panel offered with all our semi-dedicated server plans and you start installing a script-based web app either manually or using our 1-click application installer, the storage engine for the MySQL database will be selected automatically based on the requirements of the particular application. Since InnoDB is available on the cloud web hosting platform where your new semi-dedicated hosting account will be set up, it will be set as the default engine for any application that requires it without any manual action required on your end at any point. To avoid any chance of losing information if you update an app or if you remove a database unintentionally, we will generate a backup of all your MySQL databases each and every day, so if something goes wrong, we can restore your content.
InnoDB in Dedicated Servers Hosting
If you order a new dedicated server, you’ll be able to choose one of the 3 hosting Control Panels that we are offering – cPanel, Hepsia and DirectAdmin. Each server ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel comes with InnoDB pre-installed, so you won’t need to enable this MySQL database storage engine manually in order to be able to manage script-powered web applications that require it. InnoDB is used by scalable apps and since a dedicated server will offer you all the server resources that you need to run large-size sites, it is pretty likely that you will use InnoDB. You will be able to use other engines as well, so if a certain app requires MyISAM instead of InnoDB, you will not have to deal with any impediment while using it. The engine that will be used will be detected automatically once the app installation process starts, so you will not have to update any settings manually whatsoever.