Ronald Bradford can provide MySQL consulting remotely or onsite. Popular packaged solutions in additional to on demand skills include a detailed Performance Health Check and longer term MySQL System Architecture for your business. I also offer free advice to bootstrap and non-funded startup companies in general architectural requirements.

On Demand

For general MySQL consulting expertise for questions that you want answered including performance analysis and tuning, MySQL replication, high availability, MySQL backup and recovery, best practices and other general MySQL requirements.

Performance Health Check

Get an independent review of your present operations, including your MySQL Database architecture and supporting hardware and software systems necessary for a successful production environment. This package includes:

• One day in-depth review of your current environments.
• Detailed report including current H/W, S/W and database usage, patterns and monitoring.
• Recommendations on architecture, backup & recovery, monitoring, scalability and performance optimizations.
• Guidelines of current and optimized MySQL configuration settings.
• Short, medium and long term guidelines in a detailed written report for best practices to ensure future success.

If you would like more information regarding a health check for your site please contact me.

System Architecture

Designing MySQL systems for high availability, scalability and total data resilience is my primary expertise. This covers many aspects including:

Design & Configuration

• Understanding the possible MySQL Topologies
• Understanding Caching approaches and alternative storage options
• Architecture Best Practices to support large growth
• Hardware and Software infrastructure requirements
• Assess and recommend alternative schema design to ensure optimal flexibility/scalability

Testing & Monitoring

• Ensuring testability of your application
• Monitoring configured at all levels
• Disaster Recovery documented, tested and timed

• Confirmation of testing usage patterns, growth and functionality
• Monitoring analysis, review and fire drill testing
• Hardware review and growth plan

^(*) Price comparison with MySQL Consulting: Pricing at 3/4/2010 which provide generally comparable skilled resources for USD $2499 per day. Note: this amount is subject to change outside of my control. Other premium consulting providers can charge $300 per hour for services.