Xeround Discontinuing - 2 weeks to find an alternative [closed]

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Closed 8 years ago.

Xeround have just informed me that they are discontinuing their public cloud offering and given us 2 weeks to migrate. Our system went live less than 2 months ago and I am now in a panic.

Can anyone recommend an alternative that is likely to be easy to migrate to.

Answer 1

Quick and easy would be to migrate to Amazon RDS. You'll lose some availability (15 minute downtime due to hardware failure vs. none with Xeround), but unless your database is exceptionally large, it should be a fairly painless migration.

Amazon RDS supports MySQL, and has options for read replicas and failover configurations that might mitigate the availability issue.

Answer 2

I don't have any experience with this type of service or Xeround, but this search looks like it might return a few good options.

One of the options that I found is Cloudant.

Answer 3

Ok so here are some other alternatives for you, although I agree with Joe Enzminger's AWS RDS answer.

1. ClearDB (cleardb.com) - A bit pricey but is probably the most comparable option to Xeround.
2. RDBHost (rdbhost.com) - Although they have been around for some time now I still don't know much about them.
3. Google Cloud SQL (link) - Ok, its Google but if I remember correctly unless your app is built with Java its pretty difficult to connect outside of Google App Engine.

For more DBAAS offerings you can check out http://www.cloudxl.com/category/database-service/.