InnoDB is a popular database storage engine for MySQL. It is an alternative to the default engine – MyISAM, and it has plenty of upsides that have made it the preferred engine for plenty of PHP script-powered web apps, among them Magento and Joomla™, which have moved to InnoDB permanently. For example, importing immense data volumes will be faster with InnoDB, since it locks only a single row to perform a particular operation, not the entire database table, which makes the engine ideal for scalable apps. It also supports foreign keys and database transactions – these refer to the manner in which the information is tackled. In simpler words, appending new or modifying existing data will either be fully completed, or will be aborted and the operation will be rolled back in case some problem appears in the meantime, which means that the content that remains in the database won’t be lost.
InnoDB in Cloud Web Hosting
You can run any script-powered software application that requires InnoDB if you have a Linux cloud web hosting with our company, as the MySQL storage engine is available on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform as standard. During the app activation – manual or automatic, InnoDB will be selected as the default engine and the setup will proceed impeccably if this engine is needed. You can activate apps which use the MyISAM engine without having any problem as well and, once again, the engine will be pre-selected, so you won’t have to configure anything manually at any time. In addition, we’ll also generate regular backups of all the databases that you’ve got in your shared hosting account, so if you delete or overwrite anything, we can swiftly get it back to the way it was on any of the previous 7 days.
InnoDB in Dedicated Hosting
When you purchase a new dedicated server, you’ll be able to choose one of the 3 hosting Control Panels that we offer – cPanel and Hepsia. Each dedicated server ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with InnoDB pre-activated, so you won’t have to add this database engine manually in order to be able to use script-based software applications that need it. InnoDB is used for scalable applications and since a dedicated server will supply you with all the server resources that you require to run large-size websites, it is quite likely that you’ll use InnoDB. You will be able to make use of other engines as well, so if a certain app requires MyISAM rather than InnoDB, you will not have any obstacle while using it. The engine that will be used will be automatically detected once the app installation procedure starts, so you will not need to fine-tune any setting manually at any time.