Our database hosting is a completely independent service allowing for database only hosting from us. For example your current website host and hosting package may not include database services but you need a database and don't want to transfer your current site. Simply purchase a database from us and access it independantly from your existing service :)

Furthermore independant database hosting from Pixelism also allows application developers to utilise our database only hosting in the development of client side applications. For example: where a shared, Internet-based, data store is required.

MySQL 5.0

MySQL is the most popular open source database and widely considered the standard database for use with Linux.

• 150MB MySQL Database - Located in England - £40 per year
• 300MB MySQL Database - Located in England - £80 per year

The MySQL relational database management system runs on our dedicated Dual Intel Xeon database servers, freeing processor and memory of resource-hungry web server software.

With InnoDB, MySQL is a fully transactional database server, offering:

• standard SQL support and MySQL extensions
• extremely fast operation, through memory-based hash tables, thread-based memory allocation and optimised one-sweep multi-joins massive scalability
• transaction-safe (ACID compliant) storage engine
• commit, rollback, and crash recovery
• multi-user concurrency and performance
• Oracle-style consistent non-locking read in SELECT statements.

There are many tools freely available to manage your MySQL database, such as MySQL Administrator or DBTools.

Microsoft MS SQL Server

Microsoft's SQL Server is the industry standard RDBMS for use with Microsoft Windows.

• 150MB Microsoft SQL Database Server £250 per year or £25 per month
• 300MB Microsoft SQL Database Server £500 per year or £50 per month

The latest version of Microsoft's widely-used SQL relational database management system runs on our dedicated Dual Intel Xeon database servers, freeing processor and memory of resource-hungry web server software.

Developed with real-world business applications in mind, SQL Server 2000 is a fully transactional database server.

• Advanced data warehousing functionality.
• Data mining.
• Sophisticated data analysis.
• Indexed views for maximum efficiency.
• English queries.
• Rich XML support.
• Graphical Enterprise Manager client access.

You will need to maintain your database using Enterprise Manager, which will give you full control over your database.