In its simplest form, hosting a website just means two things. 1) Providing a server to house the files that make your website work, and 2) providing internet bandwidth that allows your website to be seen by the rest of the world. The majority of the 100,000^[1] new sites that went up today, were done in a “shared” environment where there may be hundreds of other websites on the same server as yours.

As a premier Oklahoma Web Hosting firm, The Worx has dealt with a lot of different customers. And nearly every SQL variant is running somewhere in our Oklahoma DataCenter. But for this dicussion, I am going to limit my comments to MySQL and PostgreSQL.