UKFast MySQL database servers

Well known as the 'M' in LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python), MySQL is an ingredient of this collective that offers an alternative to the proprietary Microsoft options. Naturally, it is lower cost but importantly for many, it gives freedom from platform lock-in.

MySQL is designed as a database to be:

• the world's first choice and popularly used database for online applications
• both affordable and available everywhere
• easy to use
• consistently improved while continuing to be fast, secure and reliable
• fun to use and improve
• bug free

The increasing volume of online data, heightened public awareness of security issues, and regulations for storage, means implementing a secure data solution is a necessity for today's organisations.

The top 10 reasons to use MySQL:

1. scalability and flexibility
2. high performance
3. high availability
4. robust transactional support
5. web and data warehouse strengths
6. strong data protection
7. comprehensive application development
8. management ease
9. open source freedom and 24 x 7 support
10. lowest total cost of ownership

MySQL replication services for high availability

Effectively managing and storing your data is vital to your online success. That's why UKFast provides a reliable and flexible MySQL data management system. Our advanced replication services enable you to spread loads, data reads and writes across multiple servers.

Choice of Master-slave or master-master MySQL replication :

master-master

this system uses two master servers both of which are always online. If one of your dedicated servers fail there is another with the exact same data ready to take over. This ensures higher availability for your data and reduces the possibility of data loss.

master-slave

in this case one dedicated server is the master which performs frontline data services. All data is also replicated to the slave server as a second tier storage system.