diff --git a/app/_config/database.yml b/app/_config/database.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c8075b..0000000
--- a/app/_config/database.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
----
-Name: myproject-database
----
-SilverStripe\ORM\Connect\MySQLDatabase:
-  connection_charset: utf8mb4
-  connection_collation: utf8mb4_unicode_ci
-  charset: utf8mb4
-  collation: utf8mb4_unicode_ci
diff --git a/app/_config/mysite.yml b/app/_config/mysite.yml
index 59c81b9..f786c18 100644
--- a/app/_config/mysite.yml
+++ b/app/_config/mysite.yml
@@ -3,3 +3,14 @@ Name: myproject
 ---
 SilverStripe\Core\Manifest\ModuleManifest:
   project: app
+
+# UTF8MB4 has limited support in older MySQL versions.
+# Remove this configuration if you experience issues.
+---
+Name: myproject-database
+---
+SilverStripe\ORM\Connect\MySQLDatabase:
+  connection_charset: utf8mb4
+  connection_collation: utf8mb4_unicode_ci
+  charset: utf8mb4
+  collation: utf8mb4_unicode_ci