Why MySQL Managed Services
Stay secure and available
Why expose your data to unnecessary risks?
Our expert DBAs protect your MySQL systems and software from any cyber-attack, data loss or unplanned downtime.
Now you can deploy the latest MySQL version safely, knowing your databases are properly risk-assessed and proactively managed.
Proactive and reliable
Get ahead of the game with our fix-before-fail problem solving across your MySQL databases.
Our 24-hour monitoring detects potential failures before they happen to prevent costly breakdowns.
And if an unexpected incident does crop up, we react fully prepared and get you back on track in no time.
All-inclusive Fees
Get first-class MySQL managed services for an affordable fixed fee. Keep up to date with the latest MySQL versions with our MySQL DBA support.
Outsource to us and any remote management or on-site visits are covered by our comprehensive no-extras contract.
And you’ll find our rates are far less expensive than employing your own DBA team full-time.
All-round MySQL Expertise
Tap into decades of in-depth MySQL knowledge and experience.
Our DBAs support Community, Standard and Enterprise editions, and all the features available to business users.
We help you deploy, manage, optimise, secure and troubleshoot MySQL and any dependent applications.
We provide flexible plug-in resources to dovetail with your in-house IT team.
MySQL Storage Options
MySQL provides a range of storage options, the most popular of which is InnoDB.
We can provide support for other storage options that are more appropriate to your needs.
- MyISAM: Used mainly for read-mostly workloads
- Memory: Stores data in fast-access RAM
- CSV: Data held in a CSV format
- Archive: Unindexed historical data
- NDB/NDBCLUSTER: For high-availability and maximum uptime
- Merge: Logical group of MyISAM files
- Federated: Linked MySQL servers
MySQL InnoDB Clusters
We provide ongoing support for MySQL InnoDB Clusters to deliver a truly high-availability solution.
Each server in the cluster is managed and provides fault-tolerant automated failovers, as well as a mechanism for further horizontal scaling utilising read replicas and reporting instances.
Data consistency is guaranteed, database failover is automatic, and we’ll rebuild the faulty parts of the cluster after an event, ensuring your highly available solution continues to work for you.
Further availability can be managed with MySQL InnoDB ClusterSet, which uses replication to a managed cluster that is always on standby and kept up to date.
Our MySQL managed services include help and advice on building a Cluster and other high-availability considerations.
MySQL Cloud Support
At some point, you may be thinking of migrating to the Cloud.
Changing platforms in such a major way is not simple; a lot of thought and planning should go into the whys, wherefores, and methods of moving what is probably a business-critical system onto Cloud infrastructure.
This migration could be a full, partial, or hybrid cloud solution to AWS, AWS RDB.
We are well-placed to assist with this journey, from initial strategy to migration planning and then to final execution.
Having performed a successful migration, we’re in the best position to provide the subsequent MySQL cloud support, taking full advantage of the benefits of being cloud-based.
MySQL Database Server Support
Not only can we provide MySQL managed services, but we can also support the underlying server, creating a seamless support environment.
MySQL End-of-Life Support
MySQL Community Edition version 5.7 went out of Extended Support on 31 October 2023. Oracle no longer actively supports it.
When a database version comes to the end of its supported life, there are many reasons why it should be upgraded to a later, more featureful, and secure version supported by Oracle’s security patches and bug fixes.
Unfortunately, upgrading is not an option for some installations, but this is where our database managed services can help.
MySQL Database Consolidation
The number of databases in an organisation can grow relentlessly over time.
This affects the cost of support and, to some extent, overall reliability. It then becomes necessary to consolidate these databases onto a smaller number of platforms, either physically or virtually.
However, the process of consolidating databases can present significant risks—change is risky! To reduce this risk, an organisation needs the resources, skills, and experience to perform the consolidation in a planned and controlled way.
The problem is that any single organisation performs this type of exercise very rarely and probably doesn’t have the necessary resources, skills, or experience to handle it.
That is where our MySQL consulting services can help. This is our bread-and-butter skill set; we’ve performed consolidations for many clients across a wide range of industries.
If a specific consolidation has a difficult problem or challenge, there’s a very good chance that a member of our MySQL consulting team has encountered it before.
MySQL Project Services
We can also provide MySQL database project work.
Projects generally follow a similar format: requirements gathering, preparation of a Statement of Work (SoW), quotation, acceptance and finally, execution and sign-off.
All projects are performed fixed-price.
- Major version upgrades
- Database health check
- Query optimisation
- MySQL database migration and consolidation
- MySQL database architectural design, configuration, build and deployment
- MySQL InnoDB Clusters design, build and deployment
- Stored procedure development
- Data masking and encryption
- General MySQL consultancy
- And more, just call…