Calculating the Total Cost of Ownership for MySQL Management
Cost analysis and cost effectiveness for databases are hardly ever performed, while it actually makes a lot of sense to perform such calculations. The easiest method of gaining insights into these is by performing a...
MySQL High Availability Tools – Comparing MHA, MRM and ClusterControl
We previously compared two high availability solutions for MySQL - MHA and MariaDB Replication Manager and looked into how they performed fail-over. In this blog post, we’ll see how ClusterControl stacks up against these solutions....
Webinar Replay: Load balancing MySQL & MariaDB with ProxySQL & ClusterControl
Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent webinar on how to load balance MySQL and MariaDB with ClusterControl and ProxySQL! This joint webinar with ProxySQL creator René Cannaò generated a lot of interest …...
Video: 9 Tips to Building a Stable MySQL Replication Environment
This video walks you through nine tips you should consider when deploying and managing a MySQL Replication environment and how utilizing ClusterControl can help make deploying, managing, monitoring, and scaling MySQL easy. Though MySQL replication...
MySQL Replication and GTID-Based Failover – A Deep Dive Into Errant Transactions
For years, MySQL replication used to be based on binary log events - all a slave knew was the exact event and the exact position it just read from the master. Any single transaction from...
Video: MySQL Replication & ClusterControl Product Demonstration
The video below details the features and functions that are available in ClusterControl for MySQL Replication. Included in the video are… How to Deploy Master-Slave Replication How to Deploy Multi-Master Replication MySQL Replication overview including...
How to Secure MySQL/MariaDB Servers
After attacks on MongoDB databases, we have recently also seen that MySQL servers are being targeted by ransomware. This should not come as a surprise, given the increasing adoption of public and private clouds....
MySQL Replication: All the Severalnines Resources
MySQL Replication has become an instrumental part of scale-out architectures in LAMP environments. MySQL offers plenty of solutions when there is a need to scale out, the most common being to add read replicas. Building...
Video: ClusterControl Developer Studio Introduction
The free ClusterControl Developer Studio provides you a set of monitoring and performance advisors to use and lets you create custom advisors to add security and stability to your MySQL, Galera, and MongoDB infrastructures. ClusterControl’s...
Video: The Difference Between MongoDB Sharding and a MongoDB ReplicaSet
In this video we will demonstrate the differences between deploying a MongoDB ReplicaSet versus deploying a MongoDB Sharded Cluster in ClusterControl. With the new version of ClusterControl 1.4, you can automatically and securely deploy...
MySQL in the Cloud – Online Migration from Amazon RDS to Your own Server: Part2
As we saw earlier, it might be challenging for companies to move their data out of RDS for MySQL. In the first part of this blog, we showed you how to set up your target...
MySQL in the Cloud – Online Migration From Amazon RDS to EC2 Instance: Part One
In our previous blog, we saw how easy it is to get started with RDS for MySQL. It is a convenient way to deploy and use MySQL, without worrying about operational overhead. The tradeoff though...