ClusterControl in the Cloud – All Our Resources
While many of our customers utilize ClusterControl on-premise to automate and manage their open source databases, several are deploying ClusterControl alongside their applications in the cloud. Utilizing the cloud allows your business and applications to...
ClusterControl Helps Mediacloud Hit Cloud “9’s”
Severalnines is excited to announce it’s newest customer Mediacloud, a Spain-based, cloud digital infrastructure provider. Mediacloud is a sub-division of Mediapro, one of the largest multimedia communications groups in Europe, and manages all of its...
Migrating MySQL Database from Amazon RDS to DigitalOcean
In previous blogs (part 1 and part 2), we discussed how to migrate your RDS data into an EC2 instance. In the process, we managed to move our data out of RDS, but we are...
MySQL in the Cloud – Online Migration from Amazon RDS to Your own Server: Part2
As we saw earlier, it might be challenging for companies to move their data out of RDS for MySQL. In the first part of this blog, we showed you how to set up your target...
MySQL in the Cloud – Online Migration From Amazon RDS to EC2 Instance: Part One
In our previous blog, we saw how easy it is to get started with RDS for MySQL. It is a convenient way to deploy and use MySQL, without worrying about operational overhead. The tradeoff though...
A Comparison of Cloud Providers
Running your infrastructure in the cloud gives you the possibility to start new projects and ramp up capacity within days, rather months or years - as can the case when you manage your own datacenter...
MySQL in the Cloud – Pros and Cons of Amazon RDS
Moving your data into a public cloud service is a big decision. All the major cloud vendors offer cloud database services, with Amazon RDS for MySQL being probably the most popular. In this blog, we’ll...
Cloud Lock-in and Open Source Databases
The cloud is no longer a question of if, but of when. Many IT leaders, however, find that one consistent barrier to their adoption of the cloud is vendor lock-in. What do you do when...
Severalnines and WooServers Bring ClusterControl to Web Hosting
New partnership helps start-ups challenge Google, Amazon and Microsoft Stockholm, Sweden and anywhere else in the world - 07 September 2016 - Severalnines, the provider of database automation and management software for open source databases,...
Infrastructure Automation – Deploying ClusterControl and MySQL-Based Systems on AWS using Ansible
We recently made a number of enhancements to the ClusterControl Ansible Role, so it now also supports automatic deployment of MySQL-based systems (MySQL Replication, Galera Cluster, NDB Cluster). The updated role uses the awesome ClusterControl...
Leveraging AWS Tools to Speed up the Management of Galera Cluster on Amazon Cloud
We previously covered basic tuning and configuration best practices for MyQL Galera Cluster on AWS. In this blog post, we’ll go over some AWS features/tools that you may find useful when managing Galera on Amazon...
5 Performance Tips for Running Galera Cluster on AWS Cloud
Amazon Web Services is one of the most popular cloud environments. Galera Cluster is one of the most popular MySQL clustering solutions. This is exactly why you’ll see many Galera clusters running on EC2 instances....