General informations about databasess

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

Examples of databases types, that You can have in your webhosting package are: mysql, mariadb, or postgresql.
Those databases are open-source, relational database management systems, kfrequently used for programming dynamic webpages or other web applications. It is popular among web developers in particular due to its fast performance and ease to use and various functionality.

You can find more informations about those databases 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 are operated on an efficient clusters, comprising several servers. In addition to distributing the load while increasing the output, this arrangement will automatically restart the operation in the case of an outage of a server, while its tasks will be redirected to one of 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. Furthermore, a database backup from the first and fifteenth day of every previous month remains in the subdirectory. You can withdraw these backups via SFTP without the need to manually create them through the phpMyAdmin.