How to setup and install Elasticsearch: From a single node to a cluster of nodes
Elasticsearch is a complex software incomparable to other mainstream database software, whether it's RDBMS or NoSQL. It functions primarily as your search engine and works as your document database to store valuable data for analytics....
10 Considerations for Architecting a Multi-Cloud Database
Thinking about architecting a multi-cloud database? It’s an increasingly common topology nowadays. The adoption rate of a multi-cloud approach has been growing fast for years. It’s a solid option for a disaster recovery plan (DRP)...
Best Practices for Scaling A Multi-Cloud Database Infrastructure
Scaling a multi-cloud database infrastructure can be a complex and challenging task, but it's essential for businesses that require high scalability, availability, and reliability. With multi-cloud becoming increasingly popular, organizations are leveraging the benefits of...
What’s new in SQL Server 2022
SQL Server 2022 is the latest database version released by Microsoft in November 2022. The release builds upon previous versions to add more choice for SQL Server users when it comes to development languages, data...
ClusterControl on the AWS Marketplace: Getting Started
Good news for AWS users! We are now available on AWS Marketplace. This allows you, with a single click of a button, to deploy ClusterControl in just a few minutes. Once ClusterControl is deployed, you...
ClusterControl 1.2.3 Released
The Severalnines team is pleased to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.2.3. This release contains new key features along with performance improvements and bug fixes. We have outlined some of the key features below. For...
MongoDB Tutorial – On-Premises Cluster Management and Monitoring of MongoDB Replica Sets
Replica Sets in MongoDB are very useful. They provide multiple copies of data, automated failover and read scalability. A Replica Set can consist of up to 12 nodes, with only one primary node (or...
How to Scale Joomla on Multiple Servers
Joomla! is estimated to be the second most used CMS on the internet after WordPress, with users like eBay, IKEA, Sony, McDonald’s and Pizza Hut. In this post, we will describe how to scale Joomla...
Replicate from a MySQL Server into a Galera Cluster
This article describes how to setup replication between a regular MySQL server and a Galera Cluster. The regular MySQL Server is the MASTER , and one of the Galera nodes will be the SLAVE: In...
How to Cluster Magento, nginx and MySQL on Multiple Servers for High Availability
Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform built on Zend PHP and MySQL. It is widely adopted by online retailers with some 150,000 sites known to use it. Single server setups are easy to set up,...
Scaling WordPress and MySQL on Multiple Servers for Performance
Over the years, WordPress has evolved from a simple blogging platform to a CMS. Over seven million sites use it today, including the likes of CNN, Forbes, The New York Times and eBay. So, how...
Several Ways to Install ClusterControl
With ClusterControl gaining in popularity, we are seeing users coming in from different angles. Some users are deploying their database cluster using our Online Configurators, others are looking to install ClusterControl to manage an existing...
Turning a MongoDB Replica Set into a Sharded Cluster
Replica Sets or Sharded Clusters? ** Diagrams updated on May 22nd. Thanks to Leif Walsh from Tokutek for his feedback. Replica Sets are a great way to replicate MongoDB data across multiple servers and have...
Using HAProxy with Your Database Cluster
Severalnines s9s_haproxy script allows you to install HAProxy and loadbalance over the MySQL servers in your cluster. To learn more about HAProxy and SQL load balancing, see this HAProxy Tutorial. By defauly s9s_haproxy installs HAProxy...
Scaling Drupal on Multiple Servers with Galera Cluster for MySQL
This post shows you how to move from a single instance Drupal/MySQL to a multi-server environment. A well designed multi-server deployment not only allows Drupal to scale, but will also enhance redundancy by removing single...
Nagios Plugin for ClusterControl
Nagios is a very popular open source IT infrastructure monitoring tool, used by sysadmins to watch out for problems in their systems. If you use Nagios and would like to utilize it to monitor your...