When traffic to your database increases day-after-day it can start to become hard to manage. When this situation happens it’s useful to distribute the traffic across multiple servers, thus improving performance. Depending on the application,...

Data is probably one of the most valuable assets in a company. Because of this we should always have a Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) to prevent data loss in the event of an accident or...

Running a MySQL Galera Cluster (either the Percona, MariaDB, or Codership build) is, unfortunately, not a  supported (nor part of) the databases supported by Amazon RDS. Most of the databases supported by RDS use asynchronous...

Since its inception, there have been an increasing number of migrations to a cloud-based environment. After all, cloud computing can provide many benefits for businesses, especially those working with big data. However, as the demand...

RDS is a Database as a Service (DBaaS) that automatically configures and maintains your databases in the AWS cloud. The user has limited power over specific configurations in comparison to running MySQL directly on Elastic...

  ClusterControl is infrastructure-agnostic - it can be used in your own datacenter on physical hosts, as well as in virtualized cloud environments. All you need is ssh access from the ClusterControl host to the...