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Reducing Your Database Hosting Costs: DigitalOcean vs. AWS vs. Azure

Scalegrid

If you’re hosting your databases in the cloud, choosing the right cloud service provider is a significant decision to make for your long-term hosting costs. Over the last few weeks, we have been inundated with requests from SMB customers looking to improve the ROI on their database hosting. MongoDB® Database. EC2 instances.

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Database Housekeeping in the New Year

Percona

Now it is time to get your databases ready for the rest of the year. Check the versions of database connectors, programming languages, and proceed all the way down to the operating system. Have you been looking at the recent features and changes in your database software? Welcome to 2023! First, how are your backups?

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Should You Keep Your Business Logic In Your Database?

Percona

Open source database architects usually do not implement business logic in their databases. This is in stark contrast to many commercial databases where this is a common practice. In the first case, all the heuristics are kept at the application layer, and the database has little or no effect on the data quality.

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Mastering MongoDB® Timeout Settings

Scalegrid

How the MongoDB timeout is set up can significantly affect your application’s performance, no matter if you are an experienced MongoDB user or just starting with NoSQL databases. MongoDB drivers provide several options for Mongo clients to handle different network timeout errors that may occur during usage.

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What is application security monitoring?

Dynatrace

Continuously monitoring application behavior, network traffic, and system logs allows teams to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that could indicate a security breach. This approach can determine malicious activity and block it by monitoring the flow of data within the application, all the way from the user to the database.

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MongoDB SSL with self-signed certificates in C#

Scalegrid

If your application connects to the production database over a public network, do reach out to support@scalegrid.io There are two problems with adding the ScaleGrid Certificate to the Windows Trust Store: The settings apply to all programs running on the machine: this can be a security vulnerability. to learn more about this.

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Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) vs. Dedicated Hosting at ScaleGrid

Scalegrid

Where you decide to host your cloud databases is a huge decision. But, if you’re considering leveraging a managed databases provider, you have another decision to make – are you able to host in your own cloud account or are you required to host through your managed service provider? Where to host your cloud database?

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