Percona provides pay-as-you-go, prepaid and retainer-based consulting to create or scale applications built on the full LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and other open source technologies. Our customer list is large and diverse, including Fortune 50 firms, popular websites, and small startups.

Percona’s comprehensive full-stack support lets you get all the help you need from one source — for example, our services include solving database performance bottlenecks, data corruption, networking configuration, or page load and render optimization. Percona’s team enjoys a worldwide reputation for expert MySQL knowledge, such as our widely read MySQL Performance blog and our latest book “High Performance MySQL“. But we are also fluent in the other key components of enterprise-class applications, such as load balancers, web proxies, caching solutions, and SANs.

Percona’s uniquely flexible pricing models let you buy the troubleshooting time you need in 15-minute increments, with no lock-in from annual contracts or per-server costs. We can work onsite at your premises, but we ordinarily work remotely via SSH, telephone, email, and instant messaging, which has proven to be the most efficient and economical approach for most customers. Our engineers are distributed worldwide, so there’s always someone available to help you 24×7.

Percona’s staff can serve as your remote DBA, architecture and design advisors, on-call support team, expert sysadmins, or whatever fits your needs. We also build binaries of an enhanced version of the MySQL server. It includes our advanced patchset for improved performance and manageability. In addition, we provide other unique open-source tools for database users, such as the data recovery tool for InnoDB tables.

We don’t artificially limit the scope of work. Customers tell us that they love the flexibility of a friendly team of experts who can easily adapt to changing situations because of our time-based pricing. To put Percona to work for you, contact us at http://www.percona.com/contacts.html

Percona Inc was started in August 2006 by Peter Zaitsev and Vadim Tkachenko. We’ve been growing steadily since then and now have teams of experts worldwide.

In addition to our consulting practice, Percona develops web projects on our own and in partnerships. These include ClickAider, a click tracking solution for publishers; BoardReader, a forum search engine; and Sphinx, a full text search engine for database content.