# Database Read/Write Replicas

**Project:** Servers | **Board:** Planned | **Votes:** 54
**URL:** https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/1-server-level-requests/items/60-database-readwrite-replicas

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It would be great if we could setup database servers as read write replicas from the panel. 

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## Comments

**Ben** (2023-09-23T11:35:27+00:00):
This, please! I am in the process of trying to set this up and it seems unnecessarily long and complicated. Manually configuring the master and replicas, generating ssl certs etc. Would be amazing to have a quick option to set a database as a master and then select the replica servers for replication and have it magically work.

**Chris Hunt** (2023-12-04T10:09:11+00:00):
This could be a big win for Ploi. All of the current managed database options are super expensive for the hardware offered, this could position Ploi as an alternative to a fully managed database, and/or allow Ploi customers to more easily offer their own managed database options.

**Lukas** (2024-04-11T20:56:09+00:00):
This would be a really helpful feature. I hope ploi gets it soon :)

**Paul Phillips** (2024-09-27T08:50:23+00:00):
Any idea on a timescale for this?

I assume you're looking at using Galera?

**Dennis** (2025-05-11T17:13:01+00:00):
How valid is this item to this day? Is this still wanted? Let me know! (And if you have a use-case let me know as well!)

**Fred Drouven** (2025-05-12T09:32:43+00:00):
If you run a serious business I think you want a managed db cluster covering your needs. So I think you do not want some kind of "unmanaged" solution via Ploi.

For testing and development I can imagine we could use it.

**Sander** (2025-05-29T07:54:34+00:00):
I see a couple of use cases in my situation
- to have a hot swappable recovery instance of the DB
- in case of a master-master replica: to easily scale up an instance, while the other one keeps functioning
- to easily scale up the performance of the db by adding clients
- to have db instances in mulitple regions, to have a db instance nearby the code server

**Marc Bush** (2025-06-05T10:07:24+00:00):
This would be awesome, being able to at least have an atomic replica offsite.

**dopo.dev - Dominic Poppe** (2025-06-18T22:07:48+00:00):
If this is added to Ploi we will have the ability to save a lot of money!

**Chris Hunt** (2025-11-05T21:39:13+00:00):
Another use for this would be to have a read only replica on another server that could be promoted to the master in case the main server goes down. So in my case i have multiple vpses that have a main duty (database, main site, api sever) but also serve as a backup in case some thing goes wrong with one of the other servers, so services can continue while a replacement is provisioned.