

Popular DBMS always keep promising with their users by release new features and update/upgrade the older versions of their products. Most DBMS always have their own pros and cons due to the comparison and market competition. This is beneficial when you are in development mode trying to connect to the MySQL server from the development server. Furthermore, in this post, we will configure MySQL to allow connection from the local computer in order to manage it. You can use MySQL to store your data such as posts of your website, information of visitors, and documents you shared with visitors. As you might already know, MySQL is an open-source relational database management system which wisely used and outperformance compare to others database management systems (DBMS). Now we want to guide you to install MySQL database version 8 into your newly created droplet in digital ocean or EC2 in amazon web services (AWS).

In the previous post, we have introduced you to steps to own your first digital ocean cloud server or droplet.
