Databases

Posted by Average Joe on February 7, 2009 under Hosting | Be the First to Comment

If you are planning to do more then host one or two basic pages for your site, you will almost indefinitely need the function’s of a database. Almost every script that is available for content management or e-commerce needs a database to operate, and often is not a requirement of a script that can be bypassed.

The most common database that is available with most hosting packages is MySQL. This is almost a standard and will provide everything you generally need to operate most scripts. When installing scripts from Fantastico databases, are automatically generated and saves a little time, otherwise if you are manually installing a script you need to create a new database, username and password and then apply that user to the database.

Another good tool that it is worth checking for in your web hosting is the tool PhpMyAdmin. What this allows you to do is to browse the data in the database tables, modify this data and do a number of other things that you may not be able to do without direct access to the tables.

Whether it is MySQL or another form of database, remember that it is something that you will almost certainly need at some point in the life of your website. Having it in your currant package will make it much easier then trying to find another package later on and probably will be less expensive then if you need to add it on down the track.