ScalaHosting Joins MariaDB Foundation as Silver Sponsors: Vector Search, E-commerce, and 99% MariaDB

ScalaHosting has joined MariaDB Foundation as a Silver Sponsor. In this interview, Kaj Arnö, Chairman of MariaDB Foundation, talks with Vlad of ScalaHosting — a Texas-based hosting company serving customers in more than 120 countries and hosting hundreds of thousands of websites, over 99% of them on MariaDB.



Vlad founded the first hosting company in Bulgaria in 2002, and went global with ScalaHosting in 2007. In this conversation he explains why, for him, the human being behind a project matters most — and why reading about Monty's intentions led him to choose MariaDB and never regret it.



In this conversation:

• What ScalaHosting is: a team passionate about servers, technology, and being useful

• The Philippines presidential-election training platform — a roughly 60-server MariaDB Galera cluster serving around 120 million visits a day, with zero downtime over three months

• Why ScalaHosting built its own control panel, SPanel, when cPanel stopped moving

• Why over 99% of the sites they host run on MariaDB — and the shared value of being useful

• The migration to MariaDB 11.8 for vector search, now rolling out across their servers

• Why vector search belongs in the database itself rather than in bolted-on software

• The opening in e-commerce and CMS: partnering with Joomla and OpenCart so shoppers can search by describing what they want, not just by exact keywords

• Why they sponsor MariaDB Foundation, and the new SPanel features — minutely backups and point-in-time recovery — already coming out of the collaboration



🔗 Links

ScalaHosting: https://www.scalahosting.com/

Support MariaDB Foundation: https://mariadb.org/donate/



#MariaDB #OpenSource #WebHosting #VectorSearch #Database #ecommerce



0:00 Intro

0:27 What is ScalaHosting?

1:19 From Bulgaria's first hosting company to going global

1:53 The Philippines presidential-election platform

2:54 A 60-server Galera cluster, 120 million visits a day, zero downtime

3:52 Building SPanel, when cPanel stopped moving

4:43 Hundreds of thousands of sites — and why 99% run on MariaDB

5:09 Why MariaDB: the human being behind the project

6:23 Migrating to 11.8 for vector search

8:02 Vector search in e-commerce: Joomla and OpenCart

9:39 Why sponsor MariaDB Foundation

10:32 How the community can help — and new SPanel features

11:39 Closing thanks