MariaDB 11 with my.cnf sized to your instance, daily encrypted backups with 30-day retention, replication-ready config, and TLS-only remote access locked behind your firewall. phpMyAdmin and Adminer included.
A default MariaDB install is a sad thing. The buffer pool is too small, the binlog is off, slow queries aren't logged, and the root account accepts connections from anywhere. We fix all of that at install time: my.cnf is sized to your instance (innodb_buffer_pool, query cache, log buffer), binlogs are on, slow query log is on with a sensible threshold, and remote access is TLS-only inside an allow-listed firewall.
Backups run nightly with mariabackup (or mysqldump fallback), encrypted client-side, then uploaded to S3-compatible storage with 30-day retention. Point-in-time recovery is available — restore to any second within the retention window.
Replication is pre-wired: enable it with one ticket and we set up the read replica on a second VPS for read scaling or failover. phpMyAdmin and Adminer are both available, both TLS-only, both behind rate-limited paths.
Buffer pool, binlog, log buffer, max connections — sized to your instance, not defaults from 2003.
mariabackup incremental, 30-day retention, client-side encryption, off-site to S3-compatible storage.
Restore to any second within the retention window — binlogs are kept and indexed.
Server-id, log_bin and GTID set from day one. Add a read replica with a single ticket.
require_secure_transport=ON, firewall locked to your allow-list, plus per-user host restrictions.
Slow log enabled with a sane threshold; Prometheus exporter ready for Grafana dashboards.
$19.99/mo for the managed DB stack + the server it runs on.
Tuned my.cnf, encrypted backups, point-in-time recovery — all set up before you log in.