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NameCrane Offloaded SQL is now in public BETA!
Hello everyone!
We're happy to announce that we're in the process of rolling out a "Managed Databases", or "Offloaded SQL" product for NameCrane. We've had quite the increase in MySQL heavy websites causing quite the mess during peak hours.
Features
- Based on MariaDB 11.4. Given the nature of the product we hope to also offer PostgreSQL.
- High performance hardware (top performing CPU's for MySQL, 1 million IOPS enteprise NVMEs, tons of RAM).
- Colocated on the same LAN/switch as our shared/reseller hosting, giving you ~0.1ms latency/
- phpMyAdmin available with a whitelabeled domain. Users can point their own domains to the server and an SSL will automagically be assigned.
- Hourly backups with probably 24 - 48 hours of retention, as well as DR backups. Not implemented yet, but should be ready by the time this is out of BETA.
Pricing
We're aiming around $0.35 - $0.50 per GB of storage, per year. So, 10GB of database storage would be $5.00/year.
The price will be $0.00 for the entirety of the beta
Ordering
You can order the service at https://namecrane.com/store/networking/managed-databases . This service currently only available in Las Vegas, but we expect it to be live in the Netherlands in the next couple weeks.
Other locations will follow as demand dictates.
What's Franned?
The current hardware is not the final specs we'll be rolling with. The node we bought for this came in damaged to the point we physically can't use one of the front drive bays, half the ram won't show up, and 2 of the PCI slots won't respond. We expect replacement hardware next week, at which point we'll migrate everything over.
It should still perform quite well, but it'll absolutely haul ass once moved.
Feedback either on here or our Discord would be highly appreciated!
Francisco
Comments
Any plans/thoughts on replication?
Possible as a cold standby we can swap over to, but we're not wanting to do HA with KVM or something like that, it eats into our IOPs too much (or makes it so we can't live migrate at all).
Francisco
Good luck with the public BETA 🤍
@Francisco you beautiful person, I been waiting for a cheap MySQL database. Thanks so much.
I wish you the best of luck, Francisco!
That cheap, very fucking cheap, isn't it? Sign me for NL, I will store shit ton of small entries to crap up your db!
What are the rules of the BETA?
Good luck with it.
Use it like you would normally use such a product. If you want to shift some production loads to it, give 'er.
We aren't going to yolo your data, it's just that there will probably be an SQL reboot next week (or maybe a longer outage while we sync things over).
Past that, stress it, test it, look for bugs.
Helpful users are likely to get to keep their services for lifetime.
Francisco
GLWS
Thank you
Let me know what you think and what we're missing.
The CraneBase portal is pretty simple/straight forward. Maybe we can work on some metrics I guess. Some visual 'success' feedback instead of just refreshing the page like we do.
Francisco
Fran, cmon, get me some british offloaded SQL 😁. I'll buy.
@Francisco you are always so sexy about hosting
i dream about this, now only need to wait until it ready on SG
wish you luck with this
this year really need some place to manage my DB from many hosting
plus need more backup places
Interesting.
Interesting!
Hello,
Can i get infos about the number of simultaneous users/connections? The limits? Ram, cpu per active database, ....
Thanks.
There's nothing in concrete but we doubt it'll be an issue.
Large caches, fast hardware, etc, should keep things in check.
If you intend to use the database remotely you're more likely to have slow downs due latency than anything else.
I make it a habit to check the slow SQL log for missing indexes and go through and add them for users. I've done this many times for shared users that were pulling their hair out trying to figure out why they were maxing 6 full cores.
Francisco
I can't wait for NL release
We for sure have some SQL whales over there we're going to beg/force to move over.
Francisco
Can I store 500GB of porn on it? Do you check if I store the raw bytes in Database if I create a table for each video? /s
Can I store 500GB of porn on it? Do you check if I store the raw bytes in Database if I create a table for each video? /s
Francisco
I was looking for a database for vercel and this is awesome! I hope you can make some optimizations to vercel.
In what way?
Francisco
How does the pricing work during beta? It shows 0 dollars per month when ordering @Francisco
It's free for the entire run of the BETA. Once done we'll inform all BETA users of the new pricing, as well as reward free service to people providing us feedback.
Francisco
Fixed the phpmyadmin upload limits, it should be something usable now (~4GB?).
Francisco
I would be super curious if you could share info about your implementation to automate provisioning of databases, backups, failover and replication.
I have been implementing something similar not for customers, but for internal user at my company, and am using CloudNativePG operator for Postgres in Kubernetes. It's absolutely awesome and it makes operating lots of database instances a breeze with a ton of automation.
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There's isn't per user SQL's running or any sort of replication at the moment minus local R1. While we weren't planning to have that at the moment, never say never.
For now the cranebase portal just interacts with a users designated SQL server to create databases, grants, and assign them.
The same thing could've been done on top of cPanel/DA like we used to do on BuyVM, but with this we have complete control without a bulky control panel.
Francisco
You really should try operators in Kubernetes for this kind of stuff
I don't know the backend IP of vercel, so 0.0.0.0./0 is useful. Or you can maintain a dedicated IP whitelist.
Got one to try it out, so far so nice! Love the domain as well