MariaDB VPS Hosting

At ZAP-Hosting you run MariaDB as a one-click Coolify app on your own KVM VPS with root access, at a location you pick from our sites in Europe and America, ideally close to your app and users. RAM depends on how much of your data should stay in memory: MariaDB itself starts small, but the InnoDB buffer pool is what keeps queries fast.

• Single WordPress site or small app: 2–4 GB RAM is a comfortable start
• Several apps or a shop with a growing catalog: 8 GB or more
• MariaDB alone on the VPS: give the buffer pool about 50–60% of RAM

Order a VPS, open the One-Click Apps installer in your dashboard and deploy MariaDB in one click. The service starts with a persistent volume and generated credentials for the app user and the root account. Every plan is a KVM VPS with full root access over SSH, so you can also install mariadb-server with your distribution's package manager, add phpMyAdmin or Adminer, or run the official Docker image yourself. One-Click Apps installer guide

MariaDB started as a fork of MySQL and speaks the same protocol, so MySQL clients, drivers and apps like WordPress, Nextcloud or Laravel connect without code changes. If you are looking for MySQL database hosting, MariaDB on your VPS covers the same apps and drivers. Newer releases differ in details such as some JSON functions and replication, so test an unusual app once before moving production traffic.

The one-click app currently installs MariaDB 11.8, a long-term support release, from the official MariaDB Docker image. You can keep that release pinned and switch to a newer image tag later, once you have tested your apps against it. Take a mariadb-dump before every major version change, so you can roll back if something breaks.

Yes. Create a dump on the old server with mysqldump or mariadb-dump, copy it to your VPS over SSH or SFTP and import it with the mariadb client into the database Coolify created. Compress large dumps to speed up the transfer, and point your app at the new host only after a test run.

• Export: mariadb-dump --single-transaction mydb > mydb.sql
• Copy the file to the VPS via scp or SFTP
• Import: mariadb -u root -p mydb < mydb.sql

Yes. The error "Host is not allowed to connect to this MariaDB server" means no user exists for the host you connect from. Create a user for your app server's IP, grant it only the database it needs, make sure MariaDB listens on the external interface and allow that IP in the firewall. Keep root limited to local connections. Firewall setup in the Help Center

A managed service takes care of updates, Backups and failover and bills per instance or usage. Self-hosted MariaDB on a VPS gives you root access, your own configuration, apps on the same server and a fixed plan price. In return you manage updates yourself, using dashboard Backups with ZapX Pass plus your own dumps. How Backups work

Yes. You can cancel your MariaDB VPS anytime in the dashboard, and the cancellation takes effect at the end of the current term. Until then the server keeps running, so you have time to export your databases with mariadb-dump and move them wherever you need. Cancel or pause a product