Case Study: Mail & Guardian achieves scalable MySQL automation and higher availability with Severalnines ClusterControl

Mail & Guardian halves server count with Severalnines

Mail & Guardian Online, a major South African news publisher, faced challenges with database sprawl and complex manual management of its MySQL infrastructure hosted on Rackspace. This situation was costly and made it difficult to ensure high availability for its fast-growing news portals. To support future expansion across Africa, the independent organization with a small IT team needed a low-cost, robust, and automated solution, which they found with Severalnines.

By implementing Severalnines' ClusterControl, the Mail & Guardian team automated the deployment and management of a MySQL Cluster. This solution consolidated their data, halved the number of required servers, and reduced the time to provision new nodes from hours to minutes. Severalnines provided the tools to achieve higher availability, better performance visibility, and a more reliable service for their readers across the continent.

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