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 MongoDB and Redis management types for your cloud deployments:
MongoDB Cluster Setup
New MongoDB Cluster: Bring Your Own Cloud
New MongoDB Cluster: Dedicated Hosting
New MongoDB Cluster: Shared Hosting
Redis Cluster Setup
New Redis Cluster: Bring Your Own Cloud
New Redis Cluster: Dedicated Hosting
MySQL Cluster Setup
New MySQL Cluster: Bring Your Own Cloud
New MySQL Cluster: Dedicated Hosting
Cloud Profiles
What is a Cloud Profile?
Setup an AWS EC2 Cloud Profile
Setup an Azure (ARM) Cloud Profile
2.1 Choose Your Database Hosting Type
Estimated time to complete: < 1 minute
The ScaleGrid Console currently supports MongoDB, Redis, and MySQL on AWS, Azure, and DigitalOcean. Here are the cloud providers available for MongoDB, Redis, and MySQL under our three database management plans:
| MongoDB | Redis | MySQL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Host your clusters in your own cloud account. Ideal for production workloads. |
AWS Azure On-Premise |
AWS | Azure |
| Dedicated Hosting Host your clusters on dedicated VM's with ScaleGrid. Ideal for production workloads. |
AWS Azure DigitalOcean |
AWS | Azure |
| Shared Hosting Host your clusters on shared VM's with ScaleGrid. Ideal for small data sets. |
AWS | - | - |
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, Dedicated Hosting and Shared 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:
| Bring Your Own Cloud | Dedicated Hosting | Shared Hosting | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing starts at: | $20/month | $35/month | $10/GB |
| Host in your own account | Yes | - | - |
| Bring your cloud hosting credits | Yes | - | - |
| VPC and VNET support | Yes | - | - |
| Use Reserved Instances | Yes | - | - |
| Security Group access control | Yes | - | - |
| Replica sets | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Full database admin control | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free backups | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WiredTiger storage engine | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Data compression | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic scaling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| IP whitelist access control | - | Yes | Yes |
| All-inclusive machine, disk and network costs | - | Yes | Yes |
For a complete list of ScaleGrid features by plan, visit:
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 support@scalegrid.io or connect via our 24/7 live chat support on the Console.
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.
