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...

A Docker image can be built by anyone who has the ability to write a script. That is why there are many similar images being built by the community, with minor differences but really serving...

There are multiple ways of deploying a database. You can install it by hand, you can rely on the widely available infrastructure orchestration tools like Ansible, Chef, Puppet or Salt. Those tools are very popular...

MySQL master-slave replication is pretty easy and straightforward to set up. This is the main reason why people choose this technology as the first step to achieve better database availability. However, it comes at the...

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...

Camunda BPM is an open-source workflow and decision automation platform. Camunda BPM ships with tools for creating workflow and decision models, operating deployed models in production, and allowing users to execute workflow tasks assigned to...

Why Choose MySQL Replication? Some basics first about the replication technology. MySQL Replication is not complicated! It is easy to implement, monitor, and tune as there are various resources you can leverage - google being...

Long running queries/statements/transactions are sometimes inevitable in a MySQL environment. In some occasions, a long running query could be a catalyst to a disastrous event. If you care about your database, optimizing query performance and...

High availability is a high percentage of time that the system is working and responding according to the business needs. For production database systems it is typically the highest priority to keep it close to...

The following is an excerpt from our whitepaper “How to Design Highly Available Open Source Database Environments” which can be downloaded for free. A Couple of Words on “High Availability” These days high availability is...

Migrating from Oracle database to MariaDB can come with a number of benefits: lower cost of ownership, access to and use of an open source database engine, tight integration with the web, an active community...

Galera replication is relatively new if compared to MySQL replication, which is natively supported since MySQL v3.23. Although MySQL replication is designed for master-slave unidirectional replication, it can be configured as an active master-master setup...