PostgreSQL Load Balancing Using HAProxy & Keepalived
A proxy layer can be quite useful in increasing availability of your database tier. It may reduce the amount of code on the application side to handle database failures and replication topology...
View ArticleOur Most Popular Database Blog Posts in 2017
As we wrap up our last blog of 2017 we wanted to reflect on what content we have been creating that’s been resonating and generating the most interest with our readers. We will continue to deliver the...
View ArticleHow to Install ClusterControl on Servers without Internet Access
There are several ways to get ClusterControl installed on your database infrastructure, as described in the ClusterControl Getting Started page. One simple way is to use an installation script,...
View ArticleAnnouncing ClusterControl 1.5.1 - Featuring Backup Encryption for MySQL,...
What better way to start a new year than with a new product release?Today we are excited to announce the 1.5.1 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you...
View ArticleHow To Achieve PCI Compliance for MySQL & MariaDB with ClusterControl - The...
Join Laurent Blume, Unix Systems Engineer & PCI Specialist and Vinay Joosery, CEO at Severalnines, as they discuss all there is to know about how to achieve PCI compliance for MySQL & MariaDB...
View ArticleUpdated: ClusterControl Tips & Tricks: Securing your MySQL Installation
Requires ClusterControl 1.2.11 or later. Applies to MySQL based clusters.During the life cycle of Database installation it is common that new user accounts are created. It is a good practice to once in...
View ArticleHow to Secure the ClusterControl Server
In our previous blog post, we showed you how you can secure your open source databases with ClusterControl. But what about the ClusterControl server itself? How do we secure it? This will be the topic...
View ArticleUpdated: Become a ClusterControl DBA: User Management
In the previous posts of this blog series, we covered deployment of clustering/replication (MySQL / Galera, MySQL Replication, MongoDB & PostgreSQL), management & monitoring of your existing...
View ArticleNew Whitepaper: How to Automate and Manage MongoDB with ClusterControl
At the time of writing this blog, MongoDB is the world’s leading NoSQL database server, and (per DB-Engines ranking, the most widely-known ranking in the database industry) the 5th database server...
View ArticleUpdated: Become a ClusterControl DBA - Deploying your Databases and Clusters
We get some nice feedback with regards to our product ClusterControl, especially how easy it is to install and get going. Installing new software is one thing, but using it properly is another.It is...
View ArticleHow to Get Started with ClusterControl
Managing database production systems takes a ton of work. Even with all the passion you can muster, it is never an easy undertaking. For one, the times when you had single database vendor are gone. The...
View ArticleJoin Us in Amsterdam for a Meetup with OptimaData & VidaXL
Severalnines, our partner OptimaData, and customer VidaXL are joining forces to present the meetup “How to Manage Fast Growing Databases” in Amsterdam featuring a myriad of technical information and...
View ArticleUpdated: 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...
View ArticleUpdated: 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...
View ArticleThe Best Alert and Notification Tools for PostgreSQL
As part of their enterprise monitoring system, organizations rely on alerts and notifications as their first line of defense to achieving high availability and consequently lowering outage costs.Alerts...
View ArticleComparing Database Proxy Failover Times - ProxySQL, MaxScale and HAProxy
ClusterControl can be used to deploy highly available replication setups. It supports switchover and failover for GTID-based MySQL or MariaDB replication setups. ClusterControl can deploy different...
View ArticleDatabase Automation Behind Sweden’s New Electronic Identity Freja eID
Severalnines is excited to announce its newest customer Verisec AB, an international IT security company on the cutting edge of digital security, creating solutions that make systems secure and easily...
View ArticleAnnouncing ClusterControl 1.6 - automation and management of open source...
Today we are excited to announce the 1.6 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source...
View ArticleHow to Go Into Production With MongoDB - Top Ten Tips
After the successful development of the application and prior to dedicating yourself to the production of MongoDB, reckon with these quick guidelines in order to ensure a smooth and efficient flow as...
View ArticleGetting the Most Out of ClusterControl Community Edition
ClusterControl is an agentless management and monitoring system that helps to deploy, manage, monitor and scale our databases from a friendly interface. It allows us to perform, in a few seconds,...
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