InnoDB is a MySQL database storage engine, which has been gaining in popularity lately, as it provides a significantly better overall performance and an improved database crash recovery in comparison to the default engine that is used by the MySQL database management system – MyISAM. InnoDB is preferred by a lot of devs that run scalable web apps, as it works more effectively with large amounts of data, while it keeps the server load low. What’s more, it locks only a single database row if anything should be modified, whereas lots of other engines lock the entire table and thus require more time to accomplish several consecutive tasks. Last, but not least, InnoDB complies with a set of "all-or-nothing" rules – if the entire data modification procedure cannot be completed for some reason, the action is rolled back to prevent scrambling or the loss of data. Magento and the latest editions of Joomla™ are two examples of popular script-powered software applications which have switched over to InnoDB.

InnoDB in Shared Hosting

You’ll be able to install any open-source script-based app that needs InnoDB in case you have a shared hosting with our company, as the database engine is available on our leading-edge cloud website hosting platform as standard. Throughout the app activation – manual or automatic, InnoDB will be selected as the default engine and the setup process will proceed impeccably if this engine is required. You can activate applications that use the MyISAM engine without any difficulty as well and, once again, the engine will be selected automatically, so you will not need to update anything manually at any point. On top of that, we’ll also make daily backups of all the databases that you’ve got in your shared hosting account, so if you erase or overwrite something, we can quickly get it back to the way it was on any of the past seven days.