If you use a script-driven platform for your website, it stores its info inside a database and the larger the website gets, the more data it stores. As an illustration, if you start a web store, the size of the database which the e-commerce script uses will increase whenever you add more products. 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 include more content, this could become a problem in case that your hosting account has limited database storage space. The specific effect of geting to the limit will be depends on the script - the website may function adequately, but you may not be able to include any new content; the website can be displayed with errors; or, in the worst case scenario, your whole website could simply go offline.
MySQL Database Storage in Shared Website Hosting
We use a state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform and all databases set up in the shared website hosting accounts on it are handled by a separate cluster of servers, so we've chosen to not limit the total space they could take. Any database inside an account can be of any size, so the development of your websites will not be constrained, since we can keep attaching additional web servers to the cluster if necessary for providing both more space and much better load balancing. In the event you run a community forum, for example, you will not have to worry that too many users may join or that they might post far too many comments. When you use our custom Hepsia CP, you shall be able to export or import a database of any size effortlessly. If you face any difficulties with this task, you should check our help articles and video lessons or you could get hold of our technical support team, that's available 24/7/365, including holidays & weekends.
MySQL Database Storage in Semi-dedicated Servers
Since our semi-dedicated server accounts use an advanced cloud platform, we can afford to offer unrestricted storage space for the MySQL databases created inside any such account while not compromising the quality of the service. On the contrary, the overall performance is improved, as a whole cluster of machines handles just MySQL queries and absolutely nothing else. We can keep growing the cluster storage and the computing power by attaching new machines and hard drives, so you'll never be confined in regard to the size of any one of your databases. You’ll be able to freely export or import any MySQL database through the phpMyAdmin tool inside your Hepsia hosting CP or you could ask our experts to help you with this task in case you have no previous experience and you are not sure how to handle it.