How to Protect your MySQL or MariaDB Database From SQL Injection: Part Two
In the first part of this blog we described how ProxySQL can be used to block incoming queries that were deemed dangerous. As you saw in that blog, achieving this is very easy. This is...
How to Protect your MySQL or MariaDB Database From SQL Injection: Part One
Security is one of the most important elements of the properly designed database environment. There are numerous attack vectors used with SQL injection being probably the most popular one. You can design layers of defence...
Understanding the ProxySQL Audit Log
ProxySQL became a very important bit of infrastructure in the database environments. It works as a load balancer, it helps to shape the flow of the traffic and reduce the downtime. With great power comes...
Database Load Balancing in the Cloud – MySQL Master Failover with ProxySQL 2.0: Part Two (Seamless Failover)
In the previous blog we showed you how to set up an environment in Amazon AWS EC2 that consists of a Percona Server 8.0 Replication Cluster (in Master - Slave topology). We deployed ProxySQL and...
Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.4: Cluster-to-Cluster Replication – Ultimate Disaster Recovery
We’re excited to announce the 1.7.4 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure. In this release we launch a new function...
Database Load Balancing in the Cloud – MySQL Master Failover with ProxySQL 2.0: Part One (Deployment)
The cloud provides very flexible environments to work with. You can easily scale it up and down by adding or removing nodes. If there’s a need, you can easily create a clone of your environment....
Database Failover for WordPress Websites
Every profitable enterprise requires high availability. Websites & Blogs are no different as even smaller companies and individuals require their sites to stay live to keep their reputation. WordPress is, by far, the most popular...
Database Load Balancing with ProxySQL & AWS Aurora
ProxySQL is a proven solution that helps database administrators dealing with the requirements for high availability of their databases. Because it is SQL-aware, it can also be used for shaping the traffic heading towards databases...
MySQL Load Balancing: Migrating ProxySQL from On-Prem to AWS EC2
Migrations between different environments are uncommon in database world. Migrations from one provider to another one. Moving from one datacenter to another. All of this happens on a regular basis. Organisations search for expense reduction,...
ProxySQL Native Clustering with Kubernetes
ProxySQL has supported native clustering since v1.4.2. This means multiple ProxySQL instances are cluster-aware; they are aware of each others' state and able to handle the configuration changes automatically by syncing up to the most...
MySQL Replication with ProxySQL on WHM/cPanel Servers: Part One
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...
Database-Aware Load Balancing: How to Migrate from HAProxy to ProxySQL
HAProxy and ProxySQL are both very popular load balancers in MySQL world, but there is a significant difference between both those proxies. We will not go into details here, you can read more about HAProxy...