Secure MongoDB and Protect Yourself From the Ransom Hack
In this blogpost we look at the recent concerns around MongoDB ransomware and security issues, and how to mitigate this threat to your own MongoDB instance. Recently, various security blogs raised concern that a hacker...
Tips and Tricks – How to Shard MySQL With ProxySQL in ClusterControl
Having too large a (write) workload on a master is dangerous. If the master collapses and a failover happens to one of its slave nodes, the slave node could collapse under the write pressure as...
Receive Email Notifications from ClusterControl
As sysadmins and DBAs, we need to be notified whenever something critical happens to our database. But would it not be nicer if we were informed upfront, and still have time to perform pre-emptive maintenance...
Database Cluster Management: Manual vs Automation
In a previous blog, we looked at the efficiency gains when automating the deployment of a Galera cluster for MySQL. In this post, we are going to dive into cluster management. Should we manage our...
We’ve Signed up Football Video and Data Platform Wyscout Used by Real Madrid, Arsenal, Juventus & Many More
Press release: everywhere in the world, 12th October 2016 - Severalnines, Europe’s leading database infrastructure software provider, today announced Wyscout, the world’s leading company providing video, data and technology to football people all over...
Load Balanced MySQL Galera Setup: Manual Deployment vs ClusterControl
If you have deployed databases with high availability before, you will know that a deployment does not always go your way, even though you’ve done it a zillion times. You could spend a full day...
New ClusterControl Subscriptions for Managing MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
We’ve got your databases covered: check out our new pricing plans for ClusterControl, the single console to deploy, monitor and manage your entire database infrastructure. Whether you’re looking to manage standalone instances, need high availability...
Severalnines and WooServers Bring ClusterControl to Web Hosting
New partnership helps start-ups challenge Google, Amazon and Microsoft Stockholm, Sweden and anywhere else in the world - 07 September 2016 - Severalnines, the provider of database automation and management software for open source databases,...
MongoDB Features – Sharded Deployments, Cluster-Consistent Backups, Advisors in ClusterControl 1.3.2 Release
The Severalnines team is pleased to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.3.2. This release contains new features, such as deploying MongoDB sharded clusters and scheduling cluster-consistent backups, MongoDB Advisors, a new alarm viewer and new...
Introduction to Docker Swarm Mode and Multi-Host Networking
In the previous blog post, we looked into Docker’s single-host networking for MySQL containers. This time, we are going to look into the basics of multi-host networking and Docker swarm mode, a built-in orchestration...
Adding Existing Databases and Clusters (Updated)
In our previous blog post we covered the deployment of four types of clustering/replication: MySQL Galera, MySQL master-slave replication, PostgreSQL replication set and MongoDB replication set. This should enable you to create new clusters with...
MongoDB Replication Lag Advisor
In the previous blog posts, we gave a brief introduction to the ClusterControl Developer Studio and the ClusterControl Domain Specific Language. We covered some useful examples, e.g., how to extract information from the Performance Schema...