Connection Handling & Throttling with HAProxy
HAProxy continues to evolve into a more powerful software for load balancing and proxying solutions. It's one of the most popular high availability solutions and can work as a proxy for Layer 4 (TCP) and...
What’s New in HAProxy 2.2
HAProxy is one of most popular open source load balancers. It is a TCP/HTTP load balancer that can handle incoming traffic and spread the request to multiple endpoints and servers. HAProxy uses reverse proxy to...
How Does a Database Load Balancer Work?
A database Load Balancer is a middleware service that stands between applications and databases. It distributes the workload across multiple database servers running behind it. The goals of having database load balancing are to provide...
Driving Performance for PostgreSQL with HAProxy
Database performance is a very important concern when maintaining your database cluster, especially as it grows over the time. This is especially true if your application started out with low traffic going then growting to...
MaxScale Basic Management Using MaxCtrl for MariaDB Cluster
In the previous blog post, we have covered some introductions to MaxScale installation, upgrade, and deployment using MaxCtrl command-line client. In this blog post, we are going to cover the MaxScale management aspects for our...
What's New in MariaDB MaxScale 2.4
MaxScale 2.4 was released on December 21st, 2019, and ClusterControl 1.7.6 supports the monitoring and managing up to this version. However, for deployment, ClusterControl only supports up to version 2.3. One has to manually upgrade...
Database Load Balancing in a Multi-Cloud Environment
Multi-cloud environments are a very good solution to implement disaster recovery and very high level of high availability. They help to ensure that even a full outage of a whole region of one cloud provider...
proxysql-admin Alternatives – ClusterControl ProxySQL GUI
ProxySQL is a very popular proxy in MySQL environments. It comes with a nice set of features including read/write splitting, query caching and query rewriting. ProxySQL stores its configuration in SQLite database, configuration changes can...
Manage Engine HAProxy Monitoring Alternatives – ClusterControl HAProxy Monitoring
In a previous blog, we looked at the differences between ManageEngine Applications Manager and ClusterControl, examining the main features of each and comparing them. In this blog we will focus on the monitoring of HAProxy,...
PostgreSQL Load Balancing in the Cloud Made Easy
We’d mentioned many times the advantages of using a Load Balancer in your database topology. It could be for redirecting traffic to healthy database nodes, distribute the traffic across multiple servers to improve performance, or...
Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.6: HA Stack Deployments in the Cloud with HAProxy
We’re excited to announce the 1.7.6 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure. This new edition expands our commitment to cloud...
A Guide to Configuring a Load Balancer in a MongoDB Sharded Cluster
For any database, the load balancing of all the requests coming from clients is an important and fundamental mechanism to ensure scalability. A proper load balancing solution spreads all the client requests evenly across all...