Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.5: Advanced Cluster Maintenance & Support for PostgreSQL 12 and MongoDB 4.2
We’re excited to announce the 1.7.5 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure. This new version features support for the latest...
How to Configure ClusterControl to Run on NGINX
ClusterControl uses the Apache HTTP Server to serve its web interface, but it is also possible to use nginx. nginx + PHP fastcgi is well-known for its capabilities to run on a small memory footprint...
Using Database Backup Advisors to Automate Maintenance Tasks
A disaster usually causes an outage, which can result in system downtime and potential loss of business-critical data. Once a blackout is detected, we trigger our disaster recovery plan to recover from it. But it...
ClusterControl Takes the Spotlight as Top IT Management Software; Chosen as Rising Star of 2019 by B2B Review Platform
ClusterControl is all about delivering robust, open source, database management for the IT management needs of our clients. This goal drives us every day, so much so that it lead us to receive two awards...
How to Install ClusterControl to a Custom Location
ClusterControl consists of a number of components and one of the most important ones is the ClusterControl UI. This is the web application through which the user interacts with other backend ClusterControl components like controller,...
Best Practices for Archiving Your Database in the Cloud
With the technology available today there is no excuse for failing to recover your data due to lack of backup policies or understanding of how vital it is to take backups as part of your...
Avoiding Database Vendor Lock-In for MySQL or MariaDB
Vendor lock-in is defined as "Proprietary lock-in or customer lock-in, which makes a customer dependent on a vendor for their products and services; unable to use another vendor without substantial cost" (wikipedia). Undeniably for many...
9 ClusterControl Features You Won't Find in Other Database Management Tools
Ensuring smooth operations of your production databases is not a trivial task, and there are a number of tools and utilities to help with the job. There are tools available for monitoring health, server performance,...
Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.4: Cluster-to-Cluster Replication – Ultimate Disaster Recovery
We’re excited to announce the 1.7.4 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure. In this release we launch a new function...
Using MySQL Galera Cluster Replication to Create a Geo-Distributed Cluster: Part Two
In the previous blog in the series we discussed the pros and cons of using Galera Cluster to create geo-distributed cluster. In this post we will design a Galera-based geo-distributed cluster and we will show...
How to Troubleshoot MySQL Database Issues
As soon as you start running a database server and your usage grows, you are exposed to many types of technical problems, performance degradation, and database malfunctions. Each of these could lead to much bigger...
Failover & Failback for PostgreSQL on Microsoft Azure
It’s pretty common to use the cloud to store your data or as a failover option in the case of master failure. There are several cloud providers which allow you to store, manage, retrieve, and...