Managed MySQL
Managed MySQL hosting,in the UK.
HostPanel provides managed MySQL hosting from £5/month, run exclusively in our London, UK datacentre. Choose MySQL 8.0 or 8.4 LTS with InnoDB tuned to your plan, daily automated backups, and phpMyAdmin plus CLI access. Point-in-time recovery and high availability arrive on the Business tier - all at flat monthly prices.
Data never leaves the UK · MySQL 8.0 / 8.4 LTS · From £5/mo, flat
London
Only UK Datacentre
8.0 / 8.4
MySQL Versions (LTS)
Daily
Automated Backups
£5/mo
Flat Starting Price
Your data stays in the UK. Full stop.
Most managed MySQL providers run on US hyperscalers with global regions and cross-border support access. HostPanel is different by design.
London datacentre only
Primary, replicas, and backups all live in the UK. There is no configuration in which your data is replicated or stored abroad.
UK jurisdiction
Your database is operated by a UK company on UK infrastructure, governed by UK law - not subject to another country's data-access regimes via your hosting layer.
Simpler UK GDPR paperwork
No international transfers from your database layer means no transfer risk assessments, IDTAs, or SCCs to maintain for it. Data residency becomes a one-line answer in your DPIA.
Production MySQL without the ops
Provisioning, backups, patching, tuning, and monitoring handled - you just connect and query.
UK Data Residency
Your database runs in our London datacentre and your data never leaves the UK - at rest, in backups, and in transit within our network.
UK Jurisdiction & UK GDPR
Data processed and stored in the UK under UK jurisdiction - a straightforward answer for UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018 documentation.
MySQL 8.0 & 8.4 LTS
Choose the innovation-track 8.0 series or the 8.4 LTS release. Minor security updates are applied for you; major upgrades happen when you choose.
InnoDB Tuned Per Plan
Buffer pool, redo log, and I/O capacity are sized to your plan's RAM out of the box - no my.cnf spelunking required to get sensible defaults.
Daily Automated Backups
Every plan includes automated daily backups with one-click restore. The Business tier adds binlog-based point-in-time recovery.
Read Replicas
Add asynchronous read replicas on Startup and Business plans to scale read-heavy workloads like reporting and search.
phpMyAdmin & CLI Access
Manage your database through phpMyAdmin in the dashboard, or connect with the standard mysql CLI and any client that speaks the MySQL protocol.
SSL-only Connections
TLS-encrypted connections enforced by default, with IP allowlisting to control exactly where connections come from.
High Availability (Business)
The Business tier runs a standby replica with automatic failover, so hardware failure doesn't mean downtime.
Sensible InnoDB defaults, tuned to your plan
Stock MySQL ships with conservative settings meant for tiny machines. We size the parameters that actually matter to the resources you're paying for.
Buffer pool sized to RAM
innodb_buffer_pool_size is set relative to your plan's memory so hot data and indexes are served from RAM, not disk - the single biggest lever for MySQL performance.
Redo log & I/O capacity
Redo log capacity and innodb_io_capacity are matched to NVMe storage, so write-heavy workloads aren't throttled by defaults written for spinning disks.
Connection limits per tier
Dev: 100 concurrent connections. Startup: 250 concurrent connections. Business: 500 concurrent connections. Limits scale with plan resources so a connection spike can't exhaust memory.
Technical specifications
Standard MySQL - no forks, no proprietary protocol. Anything that speaks MySQL works, from WordPress to your ORM.
Versions
- MySQL 8.0 and 8.4 LTS
- Minor updates applied for you
- Major upgrades on your schedule
- mysqldump exports any time
Engine & Tuning
- InnoDB storage engine
- Buffer pool sized to plan RAM
- utf8mb4 by default
- Slow query log enabled
Backups & Recovery
- Automated daily backups (all plans)
- One-click restore
- Point-in-time recovery (Business)
- Backups stored in the UK
Connectivity
- phpMyAdmin & mysql CLI
- SSL/TLS enforced
- IP allowlisting
- Standard MySQL wire protocol
The natural database for WordPress & WooCommerce
WordPress runs on MySQL, and WooCommerce hammers it - every product page, cart update, and checkout is a series of database queries. Hosting your MySQL database in the same London datacentre as your site keeps those queries on a local network instead of crossing the internet.
See UK CMS & WordPress hostingLow-latency queries
Site and database in the same facility - queries don't pay a round-trip tax on every page load.
Separate scaling
Upgrade the database without touching the site, or vice versa. A busy WooCommerce store often needs database headroom before it needs web headroom.
Independent backups
Your orders and customer data are backed up daily on their own schedule, restorable without rolling back your site's files.
Managed MySQL plans
All plans run in our UK London datacentre on NVMe storage with SSL-only connections and daily backups. Renewal price equals intro price - there is no usage-based billing, so no surprise bills.
Dev
For development
- 1GB RAM
- 10GB NVMe storage
- 100 concurrent connections
- Daily automated backups
- phpMyAdmin & CLI access
- UK London datacentre
Startup
For production apps
- 4GB RAM
- 50GB NVMe storage
- 250 concurrent connections
- Read replicas
- Daily automated backups
- UK London datacentre
Business
For critical workloads
- 8GB RAM
- 100GB NVMe storage
- 500 concurrent connections
- High availability standby
- Point-in-time recovery
- UK London datacentre
Prices checked: August 2026. Renewal price equals intro price on every plan.
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Frequently asked questions
Provision UK-hosted MySQL
A production-ready MySQL database in our London datacentre in minutes. From £5/month, flat.