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Updated: Become a ClusterControl DBA - SSL Key Management and Encryption of...
Databases usually work in a secure environment. It may be a datacenter with a dedicated VLAN for database traffic. It may be a VPC in EC2. If your network spreads across multiple datacenters in...
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Updated: ClusterControl Tips & Tricks: MySQL Query Performance Tuning
Bad query performance is the most common problem DBA’s have to deal with. There are numerous ways to collect, process and analyze the data related to query performance - we’ve covered one of the most...
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New Webinar on How to Design Open Source Databases for High Availability
Join us March 27th for this webinar on how to design open source databases for high availability with Ashraf Sharif, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines. From discussing high availability concepts...
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Updated: ClusterControl Tips & Tricks - Transparent Database Failover for...
ClusterControl is a great tool to deploy and manage databases clusters - if you are into MySQL, you can easily deploy clusters based on both traditional MySQL master-slave replication, Galera Cluster...
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Updated: Become a ClusterControl DBA: Managing your Database Configurations
In the past five posts of the blog series, we covered deployment of clustering/replication (MySQL / Galera, MySQL Replication, MongoDB & PostgreSQL), management & monitoring of your existing...
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Getting Started with ProxySQL - MySQL & MariaDB Load Balancing Tutorial
We’re excited to announce a major update to our tutorial “Database Load Balancing for MySQL and MariaDB with ProxySQL”ProxySQL is a lightweight yet complex protocol-aware proxy that sits between the...
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Updated: Become a ClusterControl DBA: Making your DB components HA via Load...
Choosing your HA topologyThere are various ways to retain high availability with databases. You can use Virtual IPs (VRRP) to manage host availability, you can use resource managers like Zookeeper and...
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New Webinar: How to Measure Database Availability
Join us on April 24th for Part 2 of our database high availability webinar special!In this session we will focus on how to measure database availability. It is notoriously hard to measure and report...
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Capacity Planning for MySQL and MariaDB - Dimensioning Storage Size
Server manufacturers and cloud providers offer different kinds of storage solutions to cater for your database needs. When buying a new server or choosing a cloud instance to run our database, we often...
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How to Make Your MySQL or MariaDB Database Highly Available on AWS and Google...
Running databases on cloud infrastructure is getting increasingly popular these days. Although a cloud VM may not be as reliable as an enterprise-grade server, the main cloud providers offer a variety...
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How to do Point-in-Time Recovery of MySQL & MariaDB Data using ClusterControl
Backups are crucial when it comes to safety of data. They are the ultimate disaster recovery solution - you have no database nodes reachable and your datacenter could literally have gone up in smoke,...
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How to Overcome Accidental Data Deletion in MySQL & MariaDB
Someone accidently deleted part of the database. Someone forgot to include a WHERE clause in a DELETE query, or they dropped the wrong table. Things like that may and will happen, it is inevitable and...
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New Webinar on How to Migrate to Galera Cluster for MySQL & MariaDB
Join us on Tuesday May 29th for this new webinar with Severalnines Support Engineer Bart Oles, who will walk you through what you need to know in order to migrate from standalone or a master-slave...
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Deploying Cloud Databases with ClusterControl 1.6
ClusterControl 1.6 comes with tighter integration with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, so it is now possible to launch new instances and deploy MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and PostgreSQL directly from the...
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Updated: Become a ClusterControl DBA: Safeguarding your Data
In the past four posts of the blog series, we covered deployment of clustering/replication (MySQL/Galera, MySQL Replication, MongoDB & PostgreSQL), management & monitoring of your existing...
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Cloud Disaster Recovery for MariaDB and MySQL
MySQL has a long tradition in geographic replication. Distributing clusters to remote data centers reduces the effects of geographic latency by pushing data closer to the user. It also provides a...
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How to Recover Galera Cluster or MySQL Replication from Split Brain Syndrome
You may have heard about the term “split brain”. What it is? How does it affect your clusters? In this blog post we will discuss what exactly it is, what danger it may pose to your database, how we can...
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Webinar: MySQL & MariaDB Performance Tuning for Dummies
You’re running MySQL or MariaDB as backend database, how do you tune it to make best use of the hardware? How do you optimize the Operating System? How do you best configure MySQL or MariaDB for a...
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ClusterControl Release 1.6.1: MariaDB Backup & PostgreSQL in the Cloud
We are excited to announce the 1.6.1 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source...
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MySQL on Docker: Running a MariaDB Galera Cluster without Container...
Container orchestration tools simplify the running of a distributed system, by deploying and redeploying containers and handling any failures that occur. One might need to move applications around,...
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