Continued from Part 1 of Using MySQL in a Hosting Environment…

Interface: Your databases will be a major feature of your work so you’ll need a MySQL hosting provider that had MySQL users in mind when it designed its admin interface. Having various staff-members being involved in building and maintaining your various databases and tables, you’d need the facility for the creation of multiple user ID’s with the ability to vary the degree of secure access. CPanel’s administrative dashboard works well with MySQL databases and has a good reputation in the business.

CRON Support: The Unix clock daemon that executes commands at specified dates and times according to instructions in a “crontab” file, a cron helps you in running specific scripts for routine, regular tasks that require running at periodic intervals and are also very good as part of Preventive Maintenance routines. A MySQL hosting provider ought to allow setting up and managing crons from the admin control panel.

PHP Info: Check that any prospective MySQL hosting provider can ensure compatibility for your database management and the scripting language you will be using. PHP is by far the most popular script used for MySQL databases and it is important that it is not merely PHP extensions that you end up dealing with.

Remember to make sure MySQL databases match with any MySQL specializing host.