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Secure and easy administration, solid reliability, high performance and rolling backups to ensure your data stays safe and available.
Please see the Plan Hosting pages for details of which database versions are available on which plans.
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| Firewalled Database - Your database is not exposed directly to the internet, but you have access online and over SSH |
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| Secure Online DB Administration - Manage your database(s) with your browser over SSL/TLS with phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin - no need to purchase an SSL certificate |
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| Secure External DB Connection - Safely upload or download private, confidential and financial data to/from your databases from your office over our SSH tunnel or SSL connection - Utilise online databases for shared desktop apps on the cloud over a solid, secure connection (multiple offices, retail outlets, sports clubs) |
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| Database Optimization - Daily index and performance optimization scripts run against all databases |
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| Separate Database Servers - Unlike VPS Cloud solutions, we use separate servers for your databases, to deliver higher performance and improved caching |
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| Redundant Hard Drive Arrays - RAID SAS drive arrays for redundancy and performance - When a hard drive fails no data is lost |
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| Redundant Data Array Mirrors - As well as RAID being used within data-arrays, databases are mirrored in real-time to separate drive-arrays for additional safety - In a complete drive-array failure no data is lost |
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| Rolling Database Backups - Comprehensive rolling backups of your databases - Daily SQL/Server backup (7 days kept) - Daily MySQL/MariaDB Backup (14 days kept) - Daily MongoDB Backup (14 days kept) - Daily CouchDB Backup (14 days kept) - Daily PostGreSQL Backup (14 days kept) - MySQL/MariaDB/PostGreSQL/MongoDB/CouchDB High-Availability clusters with real-time block-level replication - Up to 1 hour per month of free database restore assistance / forensic analysis |
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| Forensic Database Analysis - MySQL and MariaDB - We have extensive experience in database forensics and data-recovery - On all MySQL and MariaDB plans, we keep 7 full days of transaction logs - In the case of a SQL injection attack, unintended DELETE, INSERT, UPDATE or DROP action, this allows us to analyse your database activity and prepare a complete log of events with dates and times (for up to 7 days) - We can restore your database to a point-in-time (to the second) and can selectively ignore the attack or unintended operation, roll-forward any other updates performed by your users since the time of the attack and effectively erase an SQLi attack or unintended operation as if it never happened - This is a critical component in reputation protection and business continuity, saving time and money for your company, staff and end-users |
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| ACID Compliance - Immediate Storage-Layer Sync to Primary Storage and Secondary Array - Some hosts try to achieve extra performance by caching writes in the OS and database layers - We heavily cache reads but use OS and database journaling, plus sync all database writes from the database and OS immediately to our battery-backed RAID storage layers - This ensures a perfect balance of write-performance, along with data consistency in case of a dual-grid or data-center power-failure - In addition, we use synchronous writes over DRBD to a secondary array, ensuring there is no data loss or corruption in the (rare?) case of complete failure of an entire drive-array or it's controller |
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To install and maintain your database, we provide the following options:
