InnoDB is a storage engine for MySQL databases, which is used by popular open-source script-driven apps like Magento and Joomla™ 3.x. It is excellent for scalable applications, as it performs stunningly well when handling enormous volumes of data. Rather than locking the entire table to insert new information in a database like many other engines do, InnoDB locks only one row, so it can perform much more operations for the same period of time. Plus, InnoDB offers an improved crash recovery and supports transactions and foreign key constraints – rules that prescribe how data imports and modifications should be handled. If a certain task hasn’t been entirely completed for some reason, the action will be rolled back. In this way, the information in the database will stay undamaged and won’t be partially mixed with newly appended content.

InnoDB in Shared Website Hosting

InnoDB is available with all our shared website hosting by default, not as a paid upgrade or upon request, so you can activate and run any PHP-driven app which requires the MySQL storage engine without encountering any problem as soon as you order your shared web hosting account. InnoDB will be pre-selected as the default engine for a particular database during the app activation, regardless of whether you use our single-click installer or create the MySQL database and activate the application manually, on the condition that the application requires InnoDB instead of the more popular MyISAM engine. We will generate regular database backups, so you can rest assured that you won’t ever lose any data in case you delete a database unintentionally or you overwrite some key information – you just need to alert us and we will restore your data the way it was.