Question
Auto Scaling - possible with DO? And what are your suggestions on what/how?
I have a centos droplet here on DO, 8GB, with a Wordpress site on it.
I’m doing about 10,000 hits a day now. The server has handled spikes up to 16,000/day with no trouble.
But were publishing more and more and I’m concerned about getting a sudden surge of traffic. I want to be able to handle the digg effect as best as I can with little to no downtime.
So I’m looking at auto scaling. I see some hosts offer it through a control panel, but DO doesn’t seem to.
But I did find this:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-scale-your-infrastructure-with-digitalocean
It makes it look like I could scale up RAM, which is what I think would need during a crush… I think. Maybe CPU too? (Anyway to figure that out ahead of time?)
But I don’t see anything related to the pricing for scaling up specific resources like this (I thought all DO offered was the set plans, didn’t realize individual resources were available like this).
Or… would I be better off setting it up to scale up another droplet and load balancing (which I know little about)? And is that instant, or does it take a few minutes to scale up?
hmmm. I guess what I need is some suggestions on the best way to handle this issue. I’m not sure what the best solution is or if DO even has a good solution.
Appreciate any thoughts/ideas on this -
Chris
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