In today’s competitive technology environment, high availability is a must. There is no way around it - if your website or service is not available, then most probably you are losing money. It could relate...

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....

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,...

Master - slave replication PostgreSQL historically did not have support for replication - replication was provided using external tools like Pgpool and Slony. Since these solutions did not come out of the box, most of...

MySQL Replication is probably the most popular high availability solution for MySQL, and widely used by top web properties like Twitter and Facebook. Although easy to set up, ongoing maintenance like software upgrades, schema changes,...

Graylog is an open-source log management tool. Similar to Splunk and LogStash, Graylog helps centralize and aggregate all your log files for full visibility. It also provides a query language to search through log data....

MySQL Replication is used in a variety of use cases - scale out read workloads, provide high availability and geographic redundancy, offload backups and reporting/analytic jobs. However it has a big drawback - the application...

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s live webinar on Managing MySQL Replication for High Availability led by our colleague Krzysztof Książek, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines. The webinar included theory discussions bundled with...

cPanel is a very popular Linux hosting control panel, used not only by hosting providers but also enterprise and goverment bodies. For large scale hosting environments hosting mission critical databases, how do you integrate cPanel...

Thanks to everyone who joined us yesterday for this live session on designing HA for MySQL led by Krzysztof Książek, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines. The replay and slides to the webinar are now available...

There are many many approaches to MySQL high availability - from traditional, loosely-coupled database setups based on asynchronous replication to more modern, tightly-coupled architectures based on synchronous replication. These offer varying degrees of protection, and...

Thanks to everyone who attended and participated in last week’s webinar on ‘A DevOps Guide to Database Infrastructure Automation for eCommerce’. If you missed the sessions or would like to watch the webinar again &...