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2 months ago
in Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day on interfacelab
This cloud stuff is getting out of hand. Running multiple VPS servers instead of a dedicated server with dedicated storage is wrong in every way.
Here's how to scale in the real world:
- Develop on a shared host.
- Deploy on a VPS.
- Install a reverse proxy on your VPS.
- Upgrade to a midrange dedicated server.
- Max the RAM on your server.
- Add additional/faster disks to your server.
Then and only then, should you consider:
- Move the database to its own dedicated server, etc.
Here's how to scale in the real world:
- Develop on a shared host.
- Deploy on a VPS.
- Install a reverse proxy on your VPS.
- Upgrade to a midrange dedicated server.
- Max the RAM on your server.
- Add additional/faster disks to your server.
Then and only then, should you consider:
- Move the database to its own dedicated server, etc.
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6 months ago
in We need more philosophy without facts on Mark Essien
I wih we could ground this discussion in reality by discussing a specific real life example where what is being proposed would have been helpful.
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Mark Essien
The classic example involves the Earth, Fire, Water and Wind philosophical argument. Back before science was as wide as it is now, the only way to work out what our world was made up of was by thought - philosophy without experimentation. Some got it more wrong, some got it more right. But the fact that they thought about it freely, led to the abundance of theory that spurred a lot of modern scientific thought.
But nowadays, this type of free thinking would hardly be possible, because of the needs to reference existing works.
But nowadays, this type of free thinking would hardly be possible, because of the needs to reference existing works.
Real scaling in the real world means that you'll finetune your DB environment to maximize DB performance, and finetune your app server environment to maximize your request throughput. These are incompatible once you go past a performance threshold which means they can't be done on the same machine (hi there IO bottlenecks) - maximizing your RAM alone will not cut it, and running things on the same VPS just because you can doesn't mean it is the right way to do it.