Getting Started with ScaleGrid

1. Start a Trial

Estimated time to complete: < 1 minute

To begin, you must first start a trial on the ScaleGrid Console. All accounts start as a trial, and you can update to a paid plan as soon as your account is created. Just enter a business email and a password, no credit card required.

2. Create a Free Trial Cluster

Estimated time to complete: < 1 minute

Check out the ScaleGrid database plans for your cloud deployments:

MongoDB Cluster Setup
New MongoDB Cluster: Bring Your Own Cloud
New MongoDB Cluster: Dedicated Hosting

Redis™ Cluster Setup
New Redis™ Cluster: Bring Your Own Cloud
New Redis™ Cluster: Dedicated Hosting

MySQL Cluster Setup
New MySQL Deployment: Bring Your Own Cloud
New MySQL Deployment: Dedicated Hosting

PostgreSQL Cluster Setup
New PostgreSQL Deployment: Bring Your Own Cloud
New PostgreSQL Deployment: Dedicated Hosting

Cloud Profiles
What is a Cloud Profile?
Setup an AWS EC2 Cloud Profile
Setup an Azure (ARM) Cloud Profile
Setup a GCP Cloud Profile
Setup an OCI Cloud Profile

2.1 Choose Your Database Hosting Type

Estimated time to complete: < 1 minute

The ScaleGrid Console currently supports PostgreSQL, Redis™, MySQL, and MongoDB® Database on a wide variety of different cloud providers. Here are the cloud providers available for PostgreSQL, Redis™, MySQL, and MongoDB® Database under our three database management plans:

2.2 Compare Database Management Features by Plan

Estimated time to complete: < 1 minute

Check out our Pricing page or our ScaleGrid Pricing documentation to learn more about pricing for our Bring Your Own Cloud and Dedicated Hosting plans.

Each of the database management plans come with our full suite of management tools. Here is a high-level overview of the different features available to you under each plan:

For a complete list of ScaleGrid features by plan, visit:

• MongoDB Features by Plan
• ScaleGrid Features for Redis™ by Plan
• MySQL Features by Plan

3. Complete Your Account Setup

At ScaleGrid, we provide all of our users a 30-day free trial to evaluate the database management platform. If you have any questions on our capabilities, we encourage you to reach out to [email protected].

To finalize your account setup, visit our Billing page in Settings to enter your credit card information, or, simply click the Activate button in the top bar.