Question
Can I scale more droplets horizontally at various Geographic Locations?
- Posted on July 29, 2015
- VPNDigitalOceanDeploymentClusteringMiscellaneousLoad BalancingWordPressUbuntu
Asked by Umakant
Eg if i have a Wordpress site built on EasyEngine on Droplet at DO SF, Can it up to Auto Scale, ie create more droplets at other Geographic Locations depending on where the client is located closest to DO sever at respective region like Singapore or Europe. . is this possible? possible with EasyEngine, or Nginx or NGinx with varnish, or just any custom droplet can be replicated and Auto Created at other locations . Temporary or even permanently depending on traffice
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thank you . Target market New Zealand India South and East Asia and Rest of the world. but may have lot of traffic from north america depending on popularity .
I have added some extra changes as per your recommendations I will be hosting about 10 blogs on a single droplet and as time goes will need more space and droplets are low on storage i will be doing this
Domain --> Cloudflare to AWS cloud front via wp plugin which will help me get data from aws, at (Usa and Europe Region Only class 100 as per aws) S3 for all Media from WordPress. via plugin Wordpress backups to Google cloud Storage. Droplet at Singapore DO , linked to S3 Sever in Singapore. but cloud front at usa and europe only(data transfer from s3 sg to usa is free as of what i know ) Will be setting up Main Droplet where the content and data base is backed with Nginx CGI Fast Cache . unless there is a problem i wont use it .
I will be using w3 total cache for cloud front ,behind cloud front . as per your suggestion i will also look at WC Total Cache.
I am hoping cloud flare may be smart enough to decide to server static cache content from my do dropet in the region around sg and there own cdn . for rest of the world use aws cloudfront and there own cloudflare cdn .
do you know ?how to divert dns as per geo location ie set up parameters what server to call for a specific region . can this be done via cloudflare . or any other way possible . they all will be only in english though with one exception also in chinese .
Yes, but you need to use the API to create new instances, I recommend you to use varnish if all you need is to handle more traffic, yet a better option is no use a service Like Cloudflare and avoid the hassle to do it your self. Unless you application is massive I see no need to scale on servers, you better use a CDN/Caching solution like Cloudflare.