About MySQL databases

General information about databases

Access to various database types can be part of your webhosting package.

Examples of database types you can have in your webhosting package are: mysql, mariadb, or postgresql.
These are open-source relational database management systems, frequently used for programming dynamic web pages and other web applications. They are popular with web developers in particular for their fast performance, ease of use and range of features.

You can find more information about those database types on their respective homepages:
www.mysql.com
www.mariadb.com
www.postgresql.org

Interface

Your databases can be created and set up in the Control Center, available at setup.platon.sk.
The management of created MySQL databases is carried out through a secured interface phpMyAdmin at db.platon.sk

Database cluster

Databases run on efficient clusters made up of several servers. Besides distributing the load and increasing throughput, this arrangement automatically resumes operation if one server fails, and its tasks are redirected to one of the available servers.

Backups

You do not have to worry about manually backing up your databases. Overnight backups of databases are available to you at Platon Webhosting. You can find them in the subdirectory backup on our SFTP account.

There you will find complete and consistent backups of all your databases for the last five days. A database backup from the first and the fifteenth day of every previous month also stays in the subdirectory. You can download these backups over SFTP without having to create them by hand in phpMyAdmin.