MySQL Tutorial – Managing MySQL Server Logs: Rotate, Compress, Retain & Delete

Posted: May 13, 2019

MySQL Server generates several logs that can help you monitor the activities of the server. However, once these logs are enabled, they can grow in size and start taking up too much disk space. This is why it’s important to have an automated way of archiving and preserving MySQL log files for a...

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PyMongo Tutorial: Testing MongoDB Failover in Your Python App

Posted: May 2, 2019

Python is a powerful and flexible programming language used by millions of developers around the world to build their applications. It comes as no surprise that Python developers commonly leverage MongoDB hosting, the most popular NoSQL database, for their deployments due to its flexible nature...

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MySQL High Availability Framework Explained – Part III: Failure Scenarios

Posted: April 16, 2019

In this three-part blog series, we introduced a High Availability (HA) Framework for MySQL hosting in Part I, and discussed the details of MySQL semisynchronous replication in Part II. Now in Part III, we review how the framework handles some of the important MySQL failure scenarios and recovers...

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2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combinations & Top Reasons Used

Posted: April 2, 2019

PostgreSQL is an open source relational database system that has soared in popularity over the past 30 years from its active, loyal, and growing community. For the 2nd year in a row, PostgreSQL has kept the title of #1 fastest growing database in the world according to the DBMS of the Year report...

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Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part II

Posted: March 12, 2019

Are you deploying PostgreSQL in the cloud and want to understand your options for achieving high availability? In our previous blog post, Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part I, we discussed the capabilities and functioning of PostgreSQL Automatic Failover (PAF) by ClusterLabs. In...

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2019 Database Trends – SQL vs. NoSQL, Top Databases, Single vs. Multiple Database Use

Posted: March 4, 2019

Wondering which databases are trending in 2019? We asked hundreds of developers, engineers, software architects, dev teams, and IT leaders at DeveloperWeek to discover the current NoSQL vs. SQL usage, most popular databases, important metrics to track, and their most time-consuming database...

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Installing WordPress 5 on ZEIT Now with MySQL Hosting

Posted: February 11, 2019

Want to deploy WordPress 5.0 on the Now platform by ZEIT? Our friends over at ZEIT's Now global serverless deployment platform whipped up a great tutorial for WordPress5-on-Now using cheap MySQL hosting instances from ScaleGrid. With such strong interest in this installation, we decided to write...

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Intro to Redis Cluster Sharding – Advantages, Limitations, Deploying & Client Connections

Posted: February 7, 2019

Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis that allows you to automatically distribute your data across multiple nodes without having to rely on external tools and utilities. At ScaleGrid, we recently added support for Redis Clusters on our platform through our...

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MySQL Tutorial – Understanding The Seconds Behind Master Value

Posted: January 30, 2019

In a MySQL hosting replication setup, the parameter Seconds_Behind_Master (SBM), as displayed by the SHOW SLAVE STATUS command, is commonly used as an indication of the current replication lag of the slave. In this blog post, we examine how to understand and interpret this value in various...

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Highly Available Redis Clusters with Automated Sharding Launches at ScaleGrid

Posted: January 24, 2019

PALO ALTO, Calif., January 24, 2019 – ScaleGrid, a rising leader in the Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) space, has just announced support for Redis Clusters on their fully managed Redis hosting plans. Redis Cluster is the native sharding implementation available within Redis, an open-source...

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MySQL Tutorial – Managing MySQL Server Logs: Rotate, Compress, Retain & Delete

PyMongo Tutorial: Testing MongoDB Failover in Your Python App

MySQL High Availability Framework Explained – Part III: Failure Scenarios

2019 PostgreSQL Trends Report: Private vs. Public Cloud, Migrations, Database Combinations & Top Reasons Used

Managing High Availability in PostgreSQL – Part II

Intro to Redis Cluster Sharding – Advantages, Limitations, Deploying & Client Connections

MySQL Tutorial – Understanding The Seconds Behind Master Value

Highly Available Redis Clusters with Automated Sharding Launches at ScaleGrid

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