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How to Analyze PostgreSQL Table Size
When your database becomes large, you'll want to dig further and see what tables is using space and identify if how to optimize this.\ This…
How to backup MySQL to Backblaze
October 18, 2023
MySQL database backup stored in your Backblaze B2 Bucket. At SimpleBackups, we started looking into Backblaze for their B2 cloud solution…
SimpleStorage - Cloud Backup Storage
June 12, 2020
Our goal is to make sure our users do not have any excuses not to move forward with setting up their backups. That's why we offer all the…
Mounting DigitalOcean Spaces and Access Bucket From Droplet
June 11, 2020
In this post, I will show you step by step in the easiest way possible how to mount a DigitalOcean Spaces Bucket. Afterwards, you can access…
Create DigitalOcean Spaces credentials
June 11, 2020
Generate Access Key and Secret Key for DigitalOcean Spaces. It is easy to create an access key and a secret key for your DigitalOcean…
Allow Remote MySQL Connections in cPanel
November 15, 2023
By default, cPanel does not allow remote MySQL connections, which is a good thing as long as you don't need to. If you are using cPanel and…
Allow Remote MySQL Connections in WHM
November 15, 2023
By default, remote connections to MySQL are disabled in WHM. If you would like to allow a remote IP to connect to your MySQL instance, let's…
Restore a Linux File Backup
June 10, 2020
This tutorial explains how you can restore a linux file backup of, for example the /var/www directory on your server. Step 1 Assuming you…
AWS RDS MySQL Backup to S3
June 10, 2020
You can back up your MySQL Amazon RDS databases using SimpleBackups similar to how you back up MySQL databases and have it uploaded…
DigitalOcean Supported Regions
June 10, 2020
Last Update: May 29, 2023 At the moment, DigitalOcean has 13 data centers across the globe: New York City , The US: NYC1, NYC2, NYC3 San…