DBA job in an large internet property or technology company is highly stressful and often they end-up working extended working hours (occasionally weekends also) Corporations globally are committed to guaranteeing maximum work-life balance for their DBAs, Hiring a Sr. level DBA is expensive and exhaustive so retaining your DBA is very important, So how can we help you in delivering uninterrupted DBA services 24*7*365 even when your DBA is on vacation ? We are pioneers in delivering 24*7*365 remote DBA services, guaranteeing optimal, scalable, highly available and reliable database infrastructure operations.
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What you can expect from subscribing to our Vacation DBA services ?
- Elite-class global team of DBA available for you 24*7.
- Database infrastructure operations performance monitoring 24*7.
- Vendor neutral and independent DBA services – MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks and Percona Server.
- MySQL installation and configuration.
- MySQL performance benchmarking.
- MySQL capacity planning and sizing.
- MySQL performance optimization and tuning.
- SQL and Index optimization.
- Disk I/O optimization.
- MySQL troubleshooting.
- MySQL database recovery services.
- MySQL high availability solutions.
- MySQL upgrades.
- Emergency DBA support and On-call DBA services – When you need us, we are available on-call (24*7).
When customers usually subscribe for vacation DBA services ?
- Resident DBA left the company and business needs DBA coverage till they hire new DBA.
- Resident DBA is on vacation – Companies guarantee great work-life balance to the team, It’s not professional calling DBA for support when he/she is on an vacation.
- Leverage with external DBA team for 24*7 MySQL support.
- You need a expert DBA coverage for an limited period.
- Your website traffic is very high (usually for holidays / new year etc.) and you need highly responsive 24*7 DBA support.
☛ Why our customers love working with us ?
- Global team – We have expert MySQL consultants operating 24*7*365 from multiple locations worldwide.
- Vendor neutral and independent – Experts in MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server and ClickHouse.
- We are available on a short notice for emergency DBA support services.
- No long-term contract option available – You can hire us for as-low-as 40 hours.
- We bill you only for the hours worked, Discounts available for advanced booking (only for vacation DBA services).
- Performance benchmarking – We do stress testing of the system proactively to avoid incidents which can directly impact your business.
- Capacity planning and sizing – Not more nor less, We size your systems optimally and this include recommendations on CPU, memory, storage and network.
- Performance health check, diagnostics and forensics – We will be first the one to know your performance bottleneck and fix before it become ugly.
- Performance optimization and tuning – We do full-stack optimization which include Linux, MySQL and PHP also
- Disk I/O tuning – We are experts in designing optimal storage infrastructure architecture and disk I/O distribution.
- SQL tuning – We are experts in re-writing your SQL for performance, Indeed we often see the major performance improvements by just tuning expensive SQL.
- Designing optimal schema, indexes and SQL – Design and build optimal schema and SQL for performance and scalability.
- Partitioning and archiving solutions – Building systems horizontally scalable for web-scale platforms.
- Scale-out and replication solutions We build horizontally scalable systems which are highly available too.
- Sharding and horizontal partitioning solutions – Building systems horizontally scalable and reliable across multiple-DC for web-scale platforms.
- Clustering solutions – Grow your MySQL infrastructure horizontally for performance, scalability and reliability.
- High Availability and SRE – Architecting and building highly available and reliable database infrastructure operations for web-scale.
- Data recovery services – Building robust disaster recovery solutions, zero data loss systems and multi-location backup retention.
- Database upgrades and migration – Seamless upgrades and migration of database infrastructure on zero downtime.
☛ Technology focus – Vendor neutral and independent
| Technology Focus | Tools and Technologies |
|---|---|
| Linux | Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux and SUSE Linux. |
| MySQL | MySQL GA, MySQL Enterprise, InnoDB, MySQL Enterprise Backup, MySQL Cluster CGE, MySQL Enterprise Monitor, MySQL Utilities, MySQL Enterprise Audit, MySQL Enterprise Firewall and MySQL Router. |
| Percona | Percona Server for MySQL, XtraDB, TokuDB, RocksDB, Percona Toolkit, Percona XtraBackup and PMM(Percona Monitoring & Management). |
| MariaDB | MariaDB Server, RocksDB, MariaDB Galera Cluster, MariaDB Backup, MariaDB MaxScale and MariaDB ColumnStore. |
| PostgreSQL | PostgreSQL Performance Benchmarking, Capacity Planning / Sizing, PostgreSQL Performance Optimization, PostgreSQL High Availability / Database Reliability Engineering, PostgreSQL Upgrades / Migration and PostgreSQL Security |
| Cloud DBA Services | IaaS and DBaaS including: Oracle Cloud, Google CloudSQL, Amazon Aurora, AWS RDS®, EC2®, Microsoft Azure® and Rackspace® Cloud |
| Performance Monitoring and Trending Platforms | MySQL Enterprise Monitor, Icinga, Zabbix, Prometheus and Grafana. |
| High Availability, Scale-Out, Replication and Load Balancer | MySQL Group Replication, MySQL Cluster CGE, InnoDB Cluster, Galera Cluster, Percona XtraDB Cluster, MariaDB MaxScale, Continuent Tungsten Replicator, MHA (Master High Availability Manager and tools for MySQL), HAProxy, ProxySQL, MySQL Router and Vitess. |
| Columnar Database Systems | ClickHouse, MariaDB ColumnStore |
| DevOps. and Automation | Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Ganglia, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Consul, JIRA, Graylog and Grafana. |
☛ MinervaDB Remote DBA plans
| Remote DBA Plan | Rate ( plus GST / Goods and Services Tax where relevant ) |
|---|---|
| On-Demand Remote DBA (8 hours Remote DBA per month) | US $1,600 / month |
| Quarter DBA (40 hours of remote DBA services per month) | US $6,000 / month |
| Half DBA (80 hours of remote DBA services per month) | US $10,000 / month |
| Full DBA (160 hours of remote DBA services per month) | US $16,000 / month |
| The Ultimate DBA (Remote DBA services for 24*7*365) | US $54,000 / month |
☛ Customer testimonials
” Shiv is a expert in MySQL performance, He can fine tune MySQL performance at instance, application and infrastructure level in a shortest duration, I would love to hire him again “
David Hutton
Head of IT operations
National Geographic
” If it’s about MySQL performance and scalability, I will first call Shiv and He has helped us several times in building optimal, scalable and highly available MySQL infrastructure operations “
Mark Gray
IT Manager
Nike Technologies
” If you are building an highly reliable MySQL ecosystem, Hiring Shiv and his team will simplify your project. He is a guru to build an highly available and fault tolerant web property “
Kevin Thomson
Business Head – Media properties
AOL
” Shiv and his team built an custom MySQL high availability solution for us across data centers which enabled 24*7*365 availability of our business services. His Soultions are non vendor biased and cost efficient “
Keshav Patel
Group Manager – IT
Lastminute.com
” Thinking about outsourcing your DBA function ? Shiv is the guy who you should be talking to, He can build an highly reliable 24*7 remote DBA team for an fraction of cost to hiring a Sr. level resident DBA “
Brian Lewis
Lead Systems Engineer
Priceline.com
” The shortest emergency DBA support provider I have ever worked with, They are highly responsive and professional. If we suspect something going wrong with our database systems, The immediate action item is contact Shiv and his team”
Sherly Williams
Manager -Business Continuity
GAP Inc.
” We have contracted MinervaDB for 24*7 remote DBA services, They delivered MySQL maximum reliability and availability solutions ahead of the project schedule using 100% open source and free tools, saving considerably our IT budget. “
Simon Matthew
IT Manager – Media & Entertainment
Vodafone PLC
