Run your MySQL workloads on MariaDB, a drop-in replacement that speaks the same queries, drivers, and tools. Every plan ships with phpMyAdmin, remote access through a cPanel host allowlist, SSD-backed tables, and automated backups.
MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so your schema, queries, and mysqli or PDO code run unchanged. Here is what ships with every shared hosting account.
WordPress posts, WooCommerce products, forum threads, user accounts. Every row lives in a MySQL table.
Behind almost every PHP application is a MySQL database doing the real work. WordPress posts, WooCommerce orders, forum threads, and user sessions are all rows and indexes waiting to be queried on each page load. When those SELECTs and JOINs return slowly, the whole site feels slow, so the database engine deserves the same attention as the web server in front of it.
Ultra Web Hosting runs MariaDB on all shared hosting servers. MariaDB is a community-developed fork of MySQL that keeps full wire compatibility with MySQL queries, drivers, and tools while adding performance optimizations and additional storage engines. You create and drop databases from cPanel, manage schemas and data through phpMyAdmin, and let scheduled backups capture every table without lifting a finger.
For the full developer toolchain around your databases, including phpMyAdmin, cURL, GD, IonCube, Zend Guard, OpenSSL, Git, and other supported technologies, see our hosting features page.
Our MariaDB build is tuned for the mixed read and write traffic that shared hosting sees, with sensible query caching, buffer pool sizing, and connection handling. Because your tables sit on SSD storage, lookups and index scans come back fast even when the site is busy. Point any MySQL-built application at it and it connects without a single query rewrite.
Get hosting + MariaDB →Your databases live on SSD-backed Dell PowerEdge servers we own outright, racked in our own space with our engineers sitting beside them. When a slow query, an import, or a remote-access rule needs a look, a real US-based engineer answers your ticket in about 12 minutes rather than escalating you into a queue.
Every shared hosting account ships with the full MySQL stack: the MariaDB engine, phpMyAdmin in the browser, remote access by IP, scheduled backups, and automatic database provisioning for one-click installs.
MariaDB is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, so your existing schema, queries, and mysqli or PDO connection code run unchanged. You get improved query performance, extra storage engines like Aria alongside InnoDB, and active development from the original MySQL creator's team.
Every hosting account includes phpMyAdmin, the web console for your MySQL databases. Browse tables, run ad-hoc SQL, import and export .sql dumps, edit rows, manage database users and privileges, and optimize or repair tables, all in the browser from within cPanel.
Our servers back up your databases on a regular schedule, so a bad migration or a dropped table is recoverable. You can also grab a manual dump any time through cPanel's backup tools or phpMyAdmin's export function, and JetBackup adds scheduled, restore-point management on larger accounts.
Need to reach your database from outside the server? Add the source IP to the Remote MySQL host allowlist in cPanel and connect over port 3306 from MySQL Workbench, HeidiSQL, DBeaver, or a staging app on another host. Access stays closed to everyone except the addresses you approve.
Our MariaDB configuration is tuned for the mixed read and write workload of shared hosting, with query caching, buffer pool sizing, and connection handling set for the real world. Tables live on SSD storage, so index scans and JOINs return results quickly even when traffic spikes.
Softaculous creates the database, the database user, and the connection settings for you when you install WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, WooCommerce, or any of the 400+ applications it supports. No manual CREATE DATABASE, no GRANT statements, and no hand-editing wp-config.php for a one-click install.
From the browser or the command line, your MySQL databases are yours to drive. Here is how the pieces fit together on an Ultra shared plan.
mysqldump for a full logical backup and pipe it straight back in with the mysql client, which is the fastest path for large databases that would time out through a browser upload.The database questions our sales team fields every week. If yours isn't here, drop us a line.
We run MariaDB, which is wire-compatible with MySQL. Any application, driver, or query written for MySQL runs on MariaDB without modification.
The number of MySQL databases you can create depends on your hosting plan. Check our shared hosting plan details for the specific limits.
Yes. Add your source IP to the Remote MySQL host allowlist in cPanel, then connect on port 3306 from tools like MySQL Workbench, HeidiSQL, or your application's database connection.
Yes. phpMyAdmin ships with every hosting account and opens with one click from cPanel, so you can manage tables and run SQL in the browser.
Every plan, every database, cPanel managed, with remote access and daily backups. Starting at $3.95/mo with a 45-day money-back guarantee.
