I’m about to setup my own web-server at a datacenter near me. I’ll hire a server admin, but before I do, I have a few questions.
Today I was looking at MySQL’s website, and I saw the “Buy now” link in the menu. and was wondering “Isn’t MySQL free?”
Now I want to ask you, is MySQL free? - That I’ll use my server for mainly is to Host my paying customers. And later on I will buy a new server, and do a little shared hosting, does it need a paid MySQL license?
Most important, is about my own customers at the moment, that I’ve been creating websites for, if I host them, is a paid license needed?
Depends on your application. But MariaDB is basically drop in replacement, i use MariaDB 5.2.x 64bit on CentOS and Debian for vBulletin and wordpress sites without problems.
MariaDB 5.2.x is faster though from benchmarks
Of course depends on your scripts used and traffic patterns.
If you want best performing mysql version right now i’d say it’s MariaDB 5.2.x for both innodb and myisam up to 32 cpu cores it leads. Innodb performance past 48-64 cpu core threads then Percona 5.5.x edges out MariaDB 5.2.x.
If your server has <4 cpu cores probably won’t make a difference.
