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May 6, 2020

pgDash Alternatives – PostgreSQL Database Monitoring with ClusterControl

Database monitoring and alerting is a particularly important part of database operations, as we must understand the current state of the database. If you don’t have good database monitoring in place, you will not be...

May 5, 2020

PGTune Alternatives – ClusterControl PostgreSQL Configuration

If you are new to PostgreSQL the most common challenge you face is about how to tune up your database environment.  When PostgreSQL is installed it automatically produces a basic postgresql.conf file. This configuration file...

May 4, 2020

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Alternatives – ClusterControl for PostgreSQL

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is a managed service for PostgreSQL available as part of Amazon Web Services. It comes with a handful of management functions that are intended to reduce the workload of managing the...

April 30, 2020

Tips for Managing PostgreSQL Remotely

A wide range of resources are available for you when managing your PostgreSQL database clusters remotely. With the right tools managing it remotely is not a difficult task.  Using fully-managed services for PostgreSQL offers an...

April 27, 2020

Tips for Reducing Production Database Infrastructure Costs

The database tier is one of the most important layers in a system architecture. It must be set up correctly from the beginning due to it being stateful, it is harder to scale as compared...

April 22, 2020

Managing Your Open Source Databases from Your iPad

With the current COVID-19 situation ongoing, plenty of people have started to work from home. Among those are people whose job is to manage database systems. The lockdowns which have been announced all over the...

April 21, 2020

PostgreSQL Load Balancing in the Cloud Made Easy

We’d mentioned many times the advantages of using a Load Balancer in your database topology. It could be for redirecting traffic to healthy database nodes, distribute the traffic across multiple servers to improve performance, or...

April 20, 2020

Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.6: HA Stack Deployments in the Cloud with HAProxy

We’re excited to announce the 1.7.6 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure.  This new edition expands our commitment to cloud...

April 15, 2020

Setting up ClusterControl as a Bastion Host for your Database Servers

A bastion host is a gateway host between an inside network and an outside network. It is commonly used to access remote hosts sitting on a different network which has no direct connection between the...

April 14, 2020

My DBA is Sick – Database Failover Tips for SysAdmins

In case of a database failure, the best case scenario is that you have a good Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and a highly available environment with an automatic failover process in place. But what happens...

April 13, 2020

My DBA is Sick – Database User Management Tips for SysAdmins

User management is one of the day-to-day tasks that are performed by database administrators. If your database administrator is not available and you have been appointed to perform his tasks, you may have been asked...

April 9, 2020

MyDBA is Sick – Database Monitoring Tips for SysAdmins

Database monitoring is a key function for Database Administrators (DBA). With a proper monitoring platform, you can know immediately if there is something wrong with the system.  Should your DBA be unavailable and you may...

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