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title: "Database Management in NodeWorx"
source: "https://docs.nexcess.com/hosting/control-panel/interworx/nodeworx/database-management/"
description: "Your guide to managing the MySQL server in NodeWorx. Learn to control global settings, manage users, and ensure peak database performance."
vertical: "Hosting"
date: "2025-07-10"
last_modified: "2026-08-06"
---

# Database Management in NodeWorx

The NodeWorx interface provides tools to manage the MariaDB/MySQL database server. From here, you can control global database settings, manage user permissions, and monitor the health of your database services.

Proper database management is essential for the speed, reliability, and security of all hosted SiteWorx accounts. This collection of articles explains the database management tasks available in NodeWorx.

- ## [Allowing Remote Database Access in Interworx](https://docs.nexcess.com/hosting/control-panel/interworx/nodeworx/database-management/allowing-remote-database-access-in-interworx/)
    
    The InterWorx Control panel allows the ability to manage multiple external MySQL servers from a single installation of InterWorx, via MySQL server pooling. Once added, the remote MySQL Servers may be assigned to new SiteWorx accounts. From the Remote Servers page in NodeWorx, server administrators can add and remove remote MySQL servers, as well as…
- ## [Interworx: MariaDB and MySQL troubleshooting](https://docs.nexcess.com/hosting/control-panel/interworx/nodeworx/database-management/interworx-mariadb-and-mysql-troubleshooting/)
    
    Fix InterWorx “replyCode: 500” on MySQL DB/user creation. Issue: empty MySQL user. Guide: diagnose via iworx.log, then remove from `mysql.user`.