If you come across this question accompanied by doubts and scepticism, there's nothing different from the regular deployment. This is the fact, but the challenge awaits how the architecture is designed and how it can...

On-prem setups are not uncommon nowadays - we still see businesses owning and managing their datacenters. Cloud is appealing, though - it comes with a promise of velocity and flexibility. You may wonder if it...

Backup is the process of creating and storing copies of data that can be used to protect organizations against data loss. Chamilo LMS relies on MySQL or MariaDB as a database, so it is important...

Previously, we had blogged about backing up your Moodle MySQL Database. This time, it's all about backing up your Moodle MariaDB Database. In fact, it shares the same approach when backing up your Moodle MySQL...

Monitoring is a basic requirement when running a system in production, and especially important if you are running a  highly available database for Moodle. Monitoring helps you understand the current state of your database, the...

Moodle is a Learning Management System (LMS) designed to provide educators, administrators, and learners with a single robust, secure, and integrated system to create personalized learning environments. It supports different database technologies (e.g. MariaDB, MySQL,...

Open edX is a platform that provides the massively scalable learning software technology behind edX. The Open edX project is a web-based platform for creating, delivering, and analyzing online courses. It is the software that...

One of the key aspects of high availability is the ability to quickly react to failures. It is not uncommon to manually manage databases, and have monitoring software keep an eye on database health. In...

Open edX is an open source project for online learning developed by the MIT and Harvard team. It is a web based application with a lot of components such as student facing, course authoring, course...

Chamilo is, just like Open edX or Moodle, a platform that allows educational institutions to transfer their educational activities to the internet. Given that the majority of the educational activity has moved online in the...

Learning Management System (LMS) platforms allow you to learn/teach remotely, something that is really important due to the current situation around the world. That being said, we can also say High Availability is a must...

In our previous blogs, we made justification for why you need a database failover and have explained how a failover mechanism works. I’m sharing this in case you have questions on why you should set...