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Managed SQL, without a server to run.

A dedicated MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server instance, reachable over the network from wherever your application actually runs. Full administrative access, unlimited databases and users, SSD storage and disaster recovery backups, with no web hosting attached that you did not ask for.

  • MySQL or Microsoft SQL
  • SA and root level access
  • Unlimited databases and users
  • Connect from anywhere
  • Disaster recovery backups
  • 60 day money back

A database server, without the server.

Sometimes the database is the only part you want hosted. You get a dedicated instance of MySQL or Microsoft SQL Server, reachable over the network from wherever your application actually runs, with full administrative access and no web hosting bolted on that you did not ask for.

Connect with the tools you already use, SQL Server Management Studio or MySQL Workbench, and restore an existing database straight in. Instances are provisioned automatically, sit on SSD storage, and are backed up for disaster recovery.

  • Full admin access
  • Unlimited databases
  • 60 day money back
See pricing Connection and limits
NZ$15.25/month

Per instance ex VAT, either engine

Unlimited

Databases and users on your instance, however you want them arranged

SA / root

Full administrative access, not a restricted panel user

60 days

Money back guarantee if it does not suit

Pick your engine

Both cost the same. Choose on what your application already speaks.

Monthly
Yearly Yearly Discount

MySQL

Quick look at all the features

  • 20GB SSD storage*
  • Unlimited databases, no size cap
  • Root level access to your databases
  • MySQL 8.0.36
  • Remote backup restore
NZ$15.25/month

Microsoft SQL

Quick look at all the features

  • 20GB SSD storage*
  • Unlimited databases, 10GB each
  • SA level access to your databases
  • SQL Server 2019 & 2022 Express
  • Restore .BAK files
NZ$15.25/month

* Storage past the included 20GB is charged at 21p per GB per month excluding VAT, which is 25.2p including VAT. Microsoft SQL Server Express caps any single database at 10GB, which is a limit of the edition rather than of the storage; you can hold as many databases as you like within your allowance.

Frequently Asked Questions

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You will be allocated a custom port number with a host/IP address to use when connecting to your hosted database.

We have created guides for both SQL Server and MySQL to help you create your own backups.

Yes, the SQL service we provide will work just like any other database hosting, you will provide the IP/Host, username and password into your applications config to connect.

Yes, you will have full root/SA level access to your database to manage it as you please, it will work exactly the same as your local development SQL service.

On MySQL, no: your databases can be any size that fits inside your storage allowance.

On Microsoft SQL Server there is, because the instances run SQL Server Express, and Microsoft caps a single Express database at 10GB. That is a limit of the edition rather than of our storage, so you can hold as many databases as you like within your allowance, but no one of them can pass 10GB. If you expect a single database larger than that, talk to us before you order and we will point you at a VPS or dedicated server where you can run a licensed edition instead.

Express is the free edition, and Microsoft limits it in a few ways worth knowing before you order. Beyond the 10GB per database cap, an instance uses at most 1,410MB of memory for its buffer pool and the lesser of one socket or four CPU cores, and there is no SQL Server Agent, so scheduled jobs and maintenance plans are not available.

For most applications sitting behind a website none of that is a constraint. If any of it is, a VPS or dedicated server running a licensed Standard edition is the better answer, and we would rather tell you that now.

Yes. You are given a host or IP address and a custom port, and you connect to it from wherever your application runs, whether that is hosting with us, a server elsewhere or your own machine during development. Nothing has to be hosted with us for the database to be useful to you.

Not sure which engine you need?

Tell us what your application connects with and roughly how large the data is, and we will tell you which instance fits, or say plainly if a full server would serve you better.

Ask us