InnoDB is a MySQL database storage engine, which has been gaining in popularity in recent years, as it offers a better overall performance and an improved crash recovery in comparison to the default engine used by the MySQL relational database management system – MyISAM. InnoDB is preferred by plenty of web developers that write scalable web applications, as it works much more efficiently with huge data volumes, while it keeps the server load low. What’s more, it locks only a single database row in case any info should be updated, while lots of other engines lock the entire database table and hence need much more time to carry out several successive tasks. Last, but not least, InnoDB adheres to a set of "all-or-nothing" rules – if the modification of the entire data cannot be completed for any reason, the operation is rolled back to avoid confusion or losing data. Magento and the latest Joomla™ releases are two instances of famous open-source script-powered web applications that have switched over to InnoDB.

InnoDB in Hosting

Any PHP script-based web app that needs InnoDB will run flawlessly on our avant-garde cloud web hosting platform and the storage engine is offered with all our hosting plans. Whenever you create a database manually or our app installer creates one automatically and an app installation process is started, the engine that the database in question will make use of will be selected on the basis of the app’s specifications without the need to edit any setting in your shared account. InnoDB will be chosen automatically for any app that requires this particular engine and you’ll be able to get the most out of its full capacity. We’ll make daily content backups, so if you unintentionally remove a MySQL database that’s important to you or you overwrite a certain part of it, we will be able to restore the database the way it was just several hours earlier.