How To Automate the Scaling of Your Web Application on DigitalOcean
In this tutorial we will demonstrate how to use the DigitalOcean API to horizontally scale your server setup using [DOProxy](https://github.com/scanevari/doproxy), a Ruby script that, once configured, provides a command line interface to scale your HTTP application server tier up or down. Choose your operating system below to get started.
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