Moodle is an open-source e-learning platform (aka Learning Management System) that is widely adopted by educational institutions to create and administer online courses. For larger student bodies and higher volumes of instruction, moodle must be...

MongoDB deployment in production can only really work if the right deployment pattern is adhered to. Deploying a replica set in a single host does not guarantee the high availability of data. Dealing with big...

MariaDB Server offers asynchronous and synchronous replication. It can be set up to have a multi-source replication or with a multi-master setup.  For a read and write intensive application, a master-slave setup is common, but...

MariaDB Cluster is a multi-primary replication system built from MariaDB Server, MySQL wsrep patch and Galera wsrep provider. Galera is based on synchronous (or ‘virtually synchronous’) replication method, which ensures the data applied to other...

There are numerous cloud providers these days. They can be small or large, local or with data centers spread across the whole world. Many of these cloud providers offer some kind of a managed relational...

In the first part of the series, we showed you how to deploy a MySQL Replication setup with ProxySQL with WHM and cPanel. In this part, we are going to show some post-deployment operations for...

WHM and cPanel is no doubt the most popular hosting control panel for Linux based environments. It supports a number of database backends - MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL as the application datastore. WHM only supports...

WHMCS is an all-in-one client management, billing and support solution for web hosting companies. It's one of the leaders in the hosting automation world to be used alongside the hosting control panel itself. WHMCS runs...

In our previous blogs, we discussed MHA as a failover tool used in MySQL master-slave setups. Last month, we also blogged about how to handle MHA when it crashed. Today, we will see the top...

A few days ago was the release of a new version of ClusterControl, the 1.7.2, where we can see several new features, one of the main ones is the support for TimescaleDB. TimescaleDB is an...

We’re happy to announce that our new whitepaper How to Deploy Open Source Databases is now available to download for free! Choosing which DB engine to use between all the options we have today is...

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...