Scaling is the process by which a system administrator utilizes multiple servers to serve a single web application, which is key for accommodating a server’s ever-increasing workload.
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Sharded databases have been receiving lots of attention in recent years, but many don’t have a clear understanding of what they are or the scenarios in which it might make sense to shard a database. This conceptual ar...
2 months ago • By Mark DrakeDatabasesScalingHigh AvailabilityConceptual
In this tutorial, you will set up MySQL group replication using a set of three Ubuntu 20.04 servers. As you work through this tutorial, you will have the option to set the group up as either a single-primary or multi-...
3 months ago • By Justin Ellingwood, Mark DrakeBackupsDatabasesHigh AvailabilityMySQLScalingUbuntuUbuntu 20.04
Hi I am having an application where the servers are load balanced. Now the problem is if the load balancer for some reasons stops then my whole application stops. How can I have a backup load balancer so that if one s...
1 answer • 6 months ago • By channaveerLoad BalancingDigitalOcean Managed Load BalancersScaling
I plan to to host a website on digital ocean using a stack of Ubuntu, nginx, python and tornado.How many processes are available on a single cpu droplet? Do I need to specify a 2 cpu droplet or more in order to handle...
I have workloads that are intermittent and heterogeneous. Sometimes a k8s job will be scheduled to run on a pod that needs 400m memory, another time it’ll be a job that requires 24g of memory. What I want to have happ...
1 answer • 7 months ago • By offbynullKubernetesScaling
Hi, I was able to upgrade my DB cluster, but there is no option to downgrade it! I don’t understand why not. I can downgrade and upgrade my droplets whenever I want, but not my DB cluster? Is there a way to do this, o...
Accepted Answer: Hi @ALKateb , At the moment Digitalocean does not support scaling down of a Managed database cluster from the UI, You can read about limitations here: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/mysql/#limits Alt...
1 answer • 8 months ago • By ALKatebDigitalOcean Managed MySQL DatabaseScaling
Hi all, I am a solo developer trying to build a small app that requires three services: a database that runs on Node (Node Quadstore ), a Genie.jl (Julia) backend web application, and Web Components for the frontend. ...
1 answer • 8 months ago • By writerUrchinDockerBuilding on DigitalOceanScalingDigitalOcean App PlatformDigitalOcean Droplets
as i was following through the same topic ive come across a problem, the basebackup completed and i restarted the replica but the master is still not showing streaming when ive ran the command of pg stat replication
1 answer • 9 months ago • By carol22ScalingPostgreSQLDatabasesUbuntu 20.04
Hello.About this post:https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/automating-the-deployment-of-a-scalable-wordpress-site Although it is outdated, this is the most complete guide on the WordPress scaling that I se...
1 answer • 9 months ago • By agenteANDWordPressNginxDigitalOcean Managed MySQL DatabaseDigitalOcean DropletsScalingPHPDeploymentHigh AvailabilityInfrastructure
If I create a NodeJS DigitalOcean “App” (https://cloud.digitalocean.com/apps/new ) on the third screen I am choosing the tier (1GB, 2GB, 4GB, …). Is it possible to set up automatic scaling for my app? (I read that Dig...
1 answer • 11 months ago • By Tom SvestkaNode.jsScalingDigitalOcean App Platform
As I know, I can use apihttps://developers.digitalocean.com/documentation/v2/#update-an-app to scale up/down an app dynamically. when scaling up, it will be instance1, instance2, instance3 instance3 is the last added ...
Accepted Answer: Hi there, I believe that when you scale down, the newest containers will be removed. However, as the container should be immutable the order in which the containers are being removed should not matter as they should b...
I have to serve lot of images from server through HTTP request. I am using a Basic with 4 vCPUs droplet. But my content are not loading fast enough. Can anyone please help me out to choose a droplet which can serve a ...
1 answer • 12 months ago • By mustakimappnapDigitalOcean DropletsScaling
I want to know, for example if I setup k8s with the cheapest nodes(10$ per one) and make it autoscale from 1 to 10 and if in future I got a lot of traffic will it be okay?
2 answers • 1 year ago • By devtoolsSquidKubernetesScaling
How much traffic a server can handle depends on many factors but how can you give an estimate? Is there sort of equation you use to calculate such values or what exactly? Any help/previous experiences is highly apprec...
Deciding between Docker and Easyengine / SlickStack for Nginx stack running Wordpress and wondering how traffic compares Will Docker containers be different on each cloud host? is it the same results for traffic limit...
1 answer • 1 year ago • By wykecoweDockerNginxWordPressScaling
Hi, this may be a really stupid question so please excuse me, still learning all this, here goes…I have an idea for a website that offers multiple services, I want to have a landing page that has info and links to all...
1 answer • 1 year ago • By taylorglobalholdingsScalingDigitalOcean DropletsApacheCMS
As per DBRD guide block device or LVM could be used for data replication. However, whenever I try to create primary partition using fdisk all I get is following error.WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed wit...
No answers yet • 1 year ago • By amarrishiCentOSDigitalOcean DropletsScalingHigh Availability
I found this article and wonder if anyone has achieved this on DigitalOcean and had more specific details on how it was performed. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-scale-your-infrastructure-with...