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Temporary Usage Spikes: When's the threshold for scaling up the droplet?
Contemplating a strategy for dealing painlessly (ie. automatically) with temporary traffic spikes on a droplet running a LAMP stack. (On a basic droplet, and prefer to keep the size until ongoing loads increase.) I realize you could replicate the droplet and load-balance horizontally, however that may be a bit more than I care to deal with at the moment.
I notice the API allows calls for resizing the droplet – and that there’s a reversible mode of resizing (that only adds CPU & RAM). I’m thinking about setting up a system to monitor the server load that issues a resize request when a certain threshold is crossed, and then revert when the load returns to normal. Does that seem like a sensible approach? And would it be considered good practice by DigitalOcean’s side If I were to resize frequently?
While we’re on the topic, I’d love to hear more thoughts on what you consider a threshold high enough to merit resizing (level/duration). I’m thinking of probing both the overall CPU/RAM load and getting specific performance data from Apache/MySQL for threshold factors. Please share any experiences or pointers for further digging. Thanks!
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