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...

In a previous blog, we had discussed how to migrate a standalone Moodle setup to scalable setup based on a clustered database.  The next step you will need to think about is the failover mechanism...

Data is an essential part of running a Moodle environment. Should the IT operations team lose data accidentally, then it could lead to a huge loss. So, to protect valuable information, sysadmins need to back...

Institutions around the world are investing in their eLearning platforms to meet global demand. ClusterControl helps organizations with easy deployment and management of highly available database clusters. PRESS RELEASE UPDATED: JAN 18, 2021 STOCKHOLM, January 18,...

Moodle is the most popular learning management system (LMS), and it allows educators to create their own website with courses or content that extend learning. These kinds of platforms are getting more and more important to...

Database monitoring is a critical part of any application’s maintenance. Finding database issues on time can help the application remain healthy and accessible. Without monitoring in place, database outages can be prolonged, resulting in increased...