Getting Started with ScaleGrid

This page will help you get started with ScaleGrid Console. You'll be up and running in a jiffy!

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
Setup a DigitalOcean Cloud Profile
Setup a Zadara 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 cloud providers. Here are the cloud providers available for PostgreSQL, Redis™, MySQL, and MongoDB® Database under our three database management plans:

  MongoDB Redis™ MySQL Postgres
Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)
Host your clusters in your own cloud account. Ideal for production workloads.
AWS
Azure
GCP
On-Premise
OCI
AWS
Azure
GCP
On-Premise
OCI
AWS
Azure
GCP
On-Premise
OCI
AWS
Azure
GCP
On-Premise
OCI
Dedicated Hosting
Host your clusters on dedicated VM's with ScaleGrid. Ideal for production workloads.
AWS
Azure
GCP
DigitalOcean
Linode
OCI
AWS
Azure
GCP
DigitalOcean
Linode
OCI
AWS
Azure
GCP
DigitalOcean
Linode
OCI
AWS
Azure
GCP
DigitalOcean
Linode
OCI

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 comes 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
Pricing starts at: $20/month $35/month
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
Full database admin control Yes Yes
Free backups - Up to 5
WiredTiger storage engine Yes Yes
Data compression Yes Yes
Dynamic scaling Yes Yes
IP whitelist access control - Yes
All-inclusive machine, disk and network costs - Yes

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

3. Complete Your Account Setup

At ScaleGrid, we offer all users a 7-day free trial to evaluate the database management platform. If you have any questions about our capabilities, we encourage you to contact [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.

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