Question
can you explain what this startup might have been doing with 5 boxes
- Posted on June 21, 2013
Asked by m73mitchell
In this article posted by DO on Twitter, a startup explained how it uses Digital Ocean in general terms. It talks about setting up 5 different boxes ($5 per month each) and one $20 box per month for redis. https://follower.io/blog/how-we-saved-3-5k-a-year?utm_source=rubyflow
Just curious
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In what types of situations would you set up multiple smaller boxes (5 at $5 per month) rather than combining them into one bigger box?
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why set up Redis on one big box? Can Redis be installed and used on the same box as an application?
I’ve installed Redis and Memcache on one $5 box with nginx and unicorn server to host a Rails application. I’m not sure if I’m putting too much stuff on one droplet. Any comment?
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- Redundancy or to give you closer locations, you could host a server in Europe, US East and US west and have a load balancer to direct your users to the best one. Also more CPUs, if you have a lot of parallel processing going on, you could have 2 database servers, 2 web servers and your redis server acting as a session/user cache maybe? <br> <br>2) Dunno.