Connection Handling & Throttling with ProxySQL
The ability to shape the traffic that goes to the database is one of the most important ones. In the past days you had not that much control over it - applications sent the traffic...
Driving Performance for PostgreSQL with HAProxy
Database performance is a very important concern when maintaining your database cluster, especially as it grows over the time. This is especially true if your application started out with low traffic going then growting to...
Tips for Managing & Monitoring Your Moodle Database
No matter what kind of application/system you are running, you will always need to manage and monitor your databases. Even in a small project, you want to be sure everything is going fine or if...
Scaling Out the Moodle Database
Moodle is a very popular platform to run online courses. With the situation we see in 2020, Moodle, along with communicators like Zoom forms the backbone of the services that allow online learning and stay-at-home...
Building a Highly Available Database for Moodle Using PostgreSQL
Impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of SMBs/SMEs are transitioning to online platforms. Face-to-face or physical classes are also affected by this pandemic and a lot of schools and universities are also transitioning to...
Building a Highly Available Database for Moodle Using MySQL Replication
Moodle is an open source learning management system, widely used by schools and universities around the world. The project started in 2002 by Martin Dougiamas, with the aim to provide learners, teachers, educators a secure,...
Building a Highly Available Database for Moodle Using MariaDB (Replication & MariaDB Cluster)
Face-to-face meetings, nowadays, are limited to the bare minimum, online activities have taken over as the main way for teacher - student interaction. It increased the stress on the existing online “meeting” platforms (is there...
Press Release: Severalnines' Multi-Cloud, Full-Ops Database Management Provides Extra Protection for Disaster Recovery
The multi-cloud approach for databases, despite being harder to manage, is growing in popularity as it helps architect against failure and mitigates the risk of cloud lock-in. STOCKHOLM, August 31, 2020 (Newswire.com) - Multi-cloud databases have...
The Benefits of Running Your Own Private DBaaS
Your organization is in a place where you are considering different options to quickly deploy your databases. Maybe you have multiple internal customers in product teams that want to be able to setup their environments...
Video: Database Disaster Recovery with ClusterControl
This past week we debuted a series of videos on database disaster recovery. From basic backup and restore, to switchover & failover, to full cluster-to-cluster replication, these videos show how ClusterControl offers you end-to-end protection...
Things to Consider When Building an Internal or Private DBaaS
In one of the previous blogs we discussed a possible DBaaS environment built with ClusterControl as the deployment and management platform for the databases. Today we would like to take a closer look at that...
Building Your Own Private DBaaS with ClusterControl
As we explained in one of our blogs, DBaaS are powerful tools for the users that require a database for their purposes. This can be a developer that spins up database clusters for their applications,...