Scalability

Imagine:
You start a campaign which becomes succesful. Suddenly thousands of people want to visit your website or order your products. Is this a dream or a nightmare?

It becomes a nightmare if your hosting cannot be scaled in a flexible way and your website goes offline. You lose the money you have used for your expensive advertising campaign and your reputation melts away.

Scale up & scale down

The easiest way to grow: add more resources. Especially with our Virtual Private Servers it is that simple: You can expand your server from 1CPU to 8 or more CPU's, from 1GB memory 128GB memory and from 1GB to 5TB of storage with ease.

But adding resources has its limits: you can't endlessly add resources to a single server. In practice you will notice that upon reaching a certain limit, you will get less and less results.

The next step is to branch off tasks and optimize your servers. A classic webserver is often the database server as well. In busy environments it is better to place both tasks on separate server so both systems can be configured specifically for their tasks.

Thanks to loadbalancing, you can deploy multiple webservers and database clusters can be extended further.

Good architecture is the basis of scalability

A good scalable solution requires architect: depending on your website or application it is important that it is well thought out how scalability can be built in. After all, scalability goes hand in hand with availability.

Building scalable and flexible applications requires a good collaboration between developers and system operators.