MySQL in the Cloud - Pros and Cons of Amazon RDS
Moving your data into a public cloud service is a big decision. All the major cloud vendors offer cloud database services, with Amazon RDS for MySQL being probably the most popular.In this blog, we’ll...
View ArticleMySQL & MariaDB load balancing with ProxySQL & ClusterControl: introduction...
Proxies are building blocks of high availability setups for MySQL and MariaDB. They can detect failed nodes and route queries to hosts which are still available. If your master failed and you had to...
View ArticleMySQL on Docker: Composing the Stack
Docker 1.13 introduces a long-awaited feature called compose-file support, which allow us to define our containers with a nice simple config file instead of a single long command. If you have a look at...
View ArticleVideo Interview with ProxySQL Creator René Cannaò
In anticipation of this month’s webinar MySQL & MariaDB Load Balancing with ProxySQL & ClusterControl that will happen on February 28th Severalnines sat down with the creator of ProxySQL...
View ArticleAnnouncing NinesControl 3.0 with added support for Google Cloud and more
This week we’re happy to announce a new release of NinesControl, our cloud service for open source database management, with no need to install anything. NinesControl 3.0 offers extended scaling...
View ArticleNew NinesControl Features Simplify Running MySQL & MongoDB in the Cloud
We were thrilled to announce the latest version of NinesControl early this week. Let’s have a closer look at some of the new features that were introduced.Web console for accessing SSH, SQL and MongoDB...
View ArticleMySQL in the Cloud - Online Migration from Amazon RDS to EC2 instance (part 1)
In our previous blog, we saw how easy it is to get started with RDS for MySQL. It is a convenient way to deploy and use MySQL, without worrying about operational overhead. The tradeoff though is...
View ArticleMySQL in the Cloud - Online Migration from Amazon RDS to your own server...
As we saw earlier, it might be challenging for companies to move their data out of RDS for MySQL. In the first part of this blog, we showed you how to set up your target environment on EC2 and insert a...
View ArticleMigrating MySQL database from Amazon RDS to DigitalOcean
In previous blogs (part 1 and part 2), we discussed how to migrate your RDS data into an EC2 instance. In the process, we managed to move our data out of RDS, but we are still running on AWS. If you...
View ArticleVideo: ClusterControl Developer Studio Introduction Video
The free ClusterControlDeveloper Studio provides you a set of monitoring and performance advisors to use and lets you create custom advisors to add security and stability to your MySQL, Galera, and...
View ArticleHigh Availability in ProxySQL: new webinar with René Cannaò
Following the interest we saw in this topic during our recent introduction webinar to ProxySQL, we’re pleased to invite you to join this new webinar on high availability in ProxySQL.As you will know,...
View ArticleMySQL Replication: All the Severalnines Resources
MySQL Replication has become an instrumental part of scale-out architectures in LAMP environments. MySQL offers plenty of solutions when there is a need to scale out, the most common being to add read...
View ArticleHow to Secure MySQL/MariaDB Servers
After attacks on MongoDB databases, we have recently also seen that MySQL servers are being targeted by ransomware. This should not come as a surprise, given the increasing adoption of public and...
View ArticleVideo: MySQL Replication & ClusterControl Product Demonstration
The video below details the features and functions that are available in ClusterControl for MySQL Replication. Included in the video are…How to Deploy Master-Slave ReplicationHow to Deploy...
View ArticleMySQL Replication and GTID-based failover - A Deep Dive into Errant Transactions
For years, MySQL replication used to be based on binary log events - all a slave knew was the exact event and the exact position it just read from the master. Any single transaction from a master may...
View ArticleVideo: 9 Tips to Building a Stable MySQL Replication Environment
This video walks you through nine tips you should consider when deploying and managing a MySQL Replication environment and how utilizing ClusterControl can help make deploying, managing, monitoring,...
View ArticleMySQL Tutorial - Troubleshooting MySQL Replication Part 1
Replication is one of the most common ways to achieve high availability for MySQL and MariaDB. It has become much more robust with the addition of GTIDs, and is thoroughly tested by thousands and...
View ArticleMySQL Tutorial - Troubleshooting MySQL Replication Part 2
In the previous post, we discussed how to verify that MySQL Replication is in good shape. We also looked at some of the typical problems. In this post, we will have a look at some more issues that you...
View ArticleWebinar Replay and Q&A: Load balancing MySQL & MariaDB with ProxySQL &...
Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent webinar on how to load balance MySQL and MariaDB with ClusterControl and ProxySQL!This joint webinar with ProxySQL creator René Cannaò generated a lot...
View ArticleMySQL High Availability tools - Comparing MHA, MRM and ClusterControl
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...
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