Databases Manager

The Databases Manager within our Web Control Panel provides a robust nevertheless user–friendly interface. You can configure a new MySQL or PostgreSQL database by just entering a user name and password. Also, you could make a backup file or change the security password of an database with a click of the mouse.

Within the Databases Manager you’ll have direct access to the admin area for each of your databases, which enables you to make easy alterations if you happen to have to.

We have developed the manual database back–up formation into a very simple activity. To do so: inside of the Databases Manager, click the ’clock’ image on the side of the database that you plan to back up and then wait for a couple of seconds for the process to take place. With regards to the size of your database, the building of the back–up file can take somewhere between a couple of seconds and a minute.

You can make as many backups per database as you would like. We’ve not fixed any restrictions for the amount of databases you could back up too.

You’ll find PgSQL support in our web hosting plans packages. PgSQL databases are not as sought after and widespread as MySQL, nevertheless they give the highest possible level of security for your site content and articles. Because of this, several well–known brands like Skype and Yahoo use PgSQL databases. Managing PgSQL databases is as simple and easy as MySQL, due to the intuitive user interface of the Databases Manager.

PgSQL databases are incorporated automatically inside the most innovative web hosting plans. For the normal packages, they’re presented as upgrades.

With Owl Hosting, you shall invariably find the latest release of MySQL along with the default MySQL storage engine – InnoDB, installed.

InnoDB is definitely more secure as compared to the old storage engine’s version – MyISAM. It is ACID–compliant and, above all – it gives you full transaction support. You’ll find, it utilizes row–level locking, as an alternative to MyISAM’s table–level locking, that seemed to result in performance problems at peak usage times.

Via the complete database stats tool built into the Web Control Panel, it is possible to keep a record of the stress accumulated through your active websites 24 hour a day. Every overload problem with your websites could slow the loading rates and have a negative effect on the online experience of your respective visitors. Consequently, by having data for the database work live, you’ll be able to eliminate overload troubles immediately.

The database data interface shows data of the quantity of daily, hourly and monthly queries, allowing you to evaluate just how the load is allocated over different time periods.