NCSA Production MySQL Service

In an effort to help consolidate the many MySQL servers at NCSA, PSI has begun providing a production MySQL service. Among other things, MySQL databases are ideal for web programming applications and this service gives NCSA a centralized server that goes hand-in-hand with the public webservers.

There are a number of benefits to a centralized mysql server, including redundancy and no longer having to worry about your own MySQL upgrades. In addition to nightly backups of the tables, all data is replicated onto a second MySQL server which can take the place of the first in case of hardware failure. PSI's MySQL server also supports transactions with the use of InnoDB tables and MyODBC can be installed on Windows systems allowing them to use MySQL from within other Windows applications.

We are currently limiting the size of new databases to 4 GB.

Click here to request a database.

Read the FAQ.

For more information, please contact mysql-admin@ncsa.uiuc.edu