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, 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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