Master High Availability Manager (MHA) Has Crashed! What Do I Do Now?
MySQL Replication is very popular way of building highly available database layers. It is very well known, tested and robust. It is not without limitations, though. One of them, definitely, is the fact that it...
High-Performance Telecommunication Projects Driven by ClusterControl
In this blog we wanted to highlight three telecommunications providers who have used ClusterControl to power their database management. As technology gets smaller, easier and more powerful, existing Telecommunications providers must continue to innovate to...
MySQL Replication for High Availability
We’re happy to announce that our newly updated whitepaper MySQL Replication for High Availability is now available to download for free! MySQL Replication enables data from one MySQL database server to be copied automatically to...
Powering Global eCommerce with ClusterControl
In this blog we want to highlight three global eCommerce companies who have leveraged ClusterControl to manage and monitor the databases behind their powerful and innovative applications. Each eCommerce platform & application has unique needs...
How to Deploy Highly Available PostgreSQL with Single Endpoint for WordPress
WordPress is an open source software you can use to create your website, blog, or application. There are many designs and features/plugins to add to your WordPress installation. WordPress is a free software, however, there...
Deploying Secure Multicloud MySQL Replication on AWS and GCP with VPN
Why Choose MySQL Replication? Some basics first about the replication technology. MySQL Replication is not complicated! It is easy to implement, monitor, and tune as there are various resources you can leverage - google being...
High Availability on a Shoestring Budget – Deploying a Minimal Two Node MySQL Galera Cluster
We regularly get questions about how to set up a Galera cluster with just 2 nodes. The documentation clearly states you should have at least 3 Galera nodes to avoid network partitioning. But there are...
Hybrid OLTP/Analytics Database Workloads in Galera Cluster Using Asynchronous Slaves
Using Galera cluster is a great way of building a highly available environment for MySQL or MariaDB. It is a shared-nothing cluster environment which can be scaled even beyond 12-15 nodes. Galera has some limitations,...
How to Migrate MySQL from Amazon EC2 to your On-Prem Data Center Without Downtime
Since its inception, there have been an increasing number of migrations to a cloud-based environment. After all, cloud computing can provide many benefits for businesses, especially those working with big data. However, as the demand...
Monitoring Your Databases with MySQL Enterprise Monitor
How to Monitor MySQL Databases? Operational visibility is a must in any production environment. It is crucial to be able to identify any issues as soon as possible, otherwise you may end up in serious...
ClusterControl Tips and Tricks: Running ClusterControl on PHP 7
ClusterControl consists of multiple components and one of them is the user interface, a web application running on PHP platform. Some customers had concerns since PHP 5.x was deprecated early this year. This blog post...
SCUMM: The Agent-Based Database Monitoring Infrastructure in ClusterControl
With the 1.7 release of our flagship product ClusterControl, we introduced our new agent-based monitoring infrastructure: SCUMM - which this blog discusses in more detail. As a core element of our product, ClusterControl provides a...