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Managed Database Load Balancer
For MySQL & MariaDB
Replication, failover, and replica-side monitoring — managed as one package, not assembled from parts. Every tier ships with a minimum of two VPN-networked nodes, 14-day binlog retention, and the full monitoring stack from day one.
What "Managed" Actually Means Here
Database high availability fails in the details — the parts that are tedious to build correctly and easy to skip under deadline pressure. Here's what's actually running underneath every tier.
GTID Replication
Global Transaction Identifiers instead of binlog-position replication, so a replica can be repointed at a new source without hand-tracking log coordinates — the difference between a failover that's routine and one that's a 2am incident.
14-Day Binlog Retention
Long enough to recover a replica that fell behind or was rebuilt, without re-seeding a full dataset from scratch — a default most managed database offerings treat as a paid add-on.
Pre-Migration Health Gate
Schema migrations are blocked automatically if a replica is unhealthy or lagging past a safe threshold — so a routine deploy can't silently widen a replication gap you won't notice until it's a real problem.
mysqld_exporter On Every Node
Replica lag, thread status, and binlog-purge risk are metrics you can see, not symptoms you find out about from a slow page. Growth and up adds live alerting on top of the same data.
VPN-Meshed, Never Public
Replication traffic between nodes rides a dedicated VPN mesh — it never touches a public IP behind a firewall allow-rule, on any tier, starting from Starter.
Same Template, Every Tier
Starter, Growth, and Enterprise are the same underlying package template at different node counts — upgrading is a scoped change, not a rebuild.
Not Upsells —
Included By Default
Every Database LB package ships with the same operational baseline from Starter upward — because the alternative is finding out what's missing during an incident.
Three Tiers, Minimum Two Nodes
Fully managed, VPN-networked replication. Starter and Growth prices are the ceiling for that tier — final cost is confirmed at scoping and may land lower.
Starter
The minimum viable HA pair
- 1 master + 1 replica, GTID async replication
- VPN-meshed between both nodes
- Managed replication, monitoring & alerting from day one
Growth
Closes the single-point-of-failure gap
- All Starter features
- Master + replica + hot standby
- Replica-side metrics on every node
- Live replication alerting — lag, thread-down, binlog-purge-risk
Enterprise
A different build, not a bigger Growth
- 3–4 nodes, MySQL Router + Group Replication or ProxySQL
- 2+ active LB hosts — no single LB point of failure
- Dedicated internal CA, DB-side query routing
Enterprise is always custom-quoted. No VAT is charged. Need application-tier redundancy too? See App Load Balancer.
Frequently Asked
Questions
A flat R1,500 on both Starter and Growth. It reflects real load-balancer, replication, and monitoring configuration work — not bare server provisioning. Enterprise treats R1,500 as a floor; real quotes scale with node count and scope.
The full monitoring stack, TLS verified end-to-end against a package-issued internal CA, VPN-meshed replication traffic, and secrets loaded from .env/vault are baseline on every tier, including Starter — see Included above.
Database LB (this page) is managed MySQL/MariaDB high availability — replication, failover, and replica-side monitoring. App LB is managed high availability for your application layer instead — multiple app nodes behind a health-checked load balancer. Many customers run both together — see App Load Balancer.
Yes. Every package ships with a minimum of two VPN-networked nodes. There is no single-node package sold as "high availability."
There's no VAT to add. Tutajua (Pty) Ltd, the company behind BCloudHub, is not currently a registered VAT vendor, so the ZAR prices shown are what you pay. Starter and Growth prices shown are the ceiling for that tier, confirmed exactly at scoping; Enterprise is always custom-quoted.
Yes. Every tier is built from the same underlying package template, so moving up is a scoped upgrade — adding a hot-standby node and wiring in the next tier's monitoring — rather than a rebuild from scratch.
Let's Scope Your Database Layer
Book a short consultation or send a request — we'll confirm topology, node count, and final pricing before anything is provisioned.
Prices in ZAR. No VAT charged — Tutajua (Pty) Ltd is not currently a registered VAT vendor.
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