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How to Run PHP 5 Applications with MySQL 8.0 on CentOS 7
Despite the fact that PHP 5 has reached end-of-life, there are still legacy applications built on top of it that need to run in production or test environments. If you are installing PHP packages via...
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MySQL on Docker: 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...
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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....
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A Guide to Automated Cloud Database Deployments
Complex, inflexible architectures, redundancy and out-of-date technology, are common problems for companies facing data to cloud migration. We look to the“clouds,” hoping that we will find there a...
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Automated Deployment of MySQL Galera Cluster to Amazon AWS with Puppet
Deployment and management your database environment can be a tedious task. It's very common nowadays to use tools for automating your deployment to make these tasks easier. Automation solutions such as...
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A Guide to MySQL Galera Cluster Restoration Using mysqldump
Using logical backup programs like mysqldump is a common practice performed by MySQL admins for backup and restore (the process of moving a database from one server to another) and is also the most...
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Building a MySQL or MariaDB Database Cold Standby on Amazon AWS
High Availability is a must these days as most organizations can’t allow itself to lose its data. High Availability, however, always comes with a price tag (which can vary a lot.) Any setups which...
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Comparing Galera Cluster Cloud Offerings: Part One Amazon AWS
Running a MySQL Galera Cluster (either the Percona, MariaDB, or Codership build) is, unfortunately, not a supported (nor part of) the databases supported by Amazon RDS. Most of the databases supported...
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Comparing Failover Times for Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, and ClusterControl
If your IT infrastructure is running on AWS, you have probably heard about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), an easy way to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It...
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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...
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Comparing Galera Cluster Cloud Offerings: Part Three Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure is known to many as an alternative public cloud platform to Amazon AWS. It's not easy to directly compare these two giant companies. Microsoft's cloud business -- dubbed commercial...
View ArticleDatabase Switchover and Failover for Drupal Websites Using MySQL or PostgreSQL
Drupal is a Content Management System (CMS) designed to create everything from tiny to large corporate websites. Over 1,000,000 websites run on Drupal and it is used to make many of the websites and...
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Achieving MySQL Failover & Failback on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
There are numerous cloud providers these days. They can be small or large, local or with data centers spread across the whole world. Many of these cloud providers offer some kind of a managed...
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Comparing DBaaS Failover Solutions to Manual Recovery Setups
We have recently written several blogs covering how different cloud providers handle database failover. We compared failover performance in Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS and ClusterControl, tested the...
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How to Troubleshoot MySQL Database Issues
As soon as you start running a database server and your usage grows, you are exposed to many types of technical problems, performance degradation, and database malfunctions. Each of these could lead...
View ArticleWhat’s New in MySQL Galera Cluster 4.0
MySQL Galera Cluster 4.0 is the new kid on the database block with very interesting new features. Currently it is available only as a part of MariaDB 10.4 but in the future it will work as well with...
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How to Create a Clone of Your MySQL or PostgreSQL Database Cluster
If you are managing a production database, chances are high that you’ve had to clone your database to a different server other than the production server. The basic method of creating a clone is to...
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Using MySQL Galera Cluster Replication to Create a Geo-Distributed Cluster:...
It is quite common to see databases distributed across multiple geographical locations. One scenario for doing this type of setup is for disaster recovery, where your standby data center is located in...
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Using MySQL Galera Cluster Replication to Create a Geo-Distributed Cluster:...
In the previous blog in the series we discussed the pros and cons of using Galera Cluster to create geo-distributed cluster. In this post we will design a Galera-based geo-distributed cluster and we...
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MySQL Cloud Backup and Restore Scenarios Using Microsoft Azure
Backups are a very important part of your database operations, as your business must be secured when catastrophe strikes. When that time comes (and it will), your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and...
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