Scaling Up: Picking The Right Setup
Now that your application is running at peak performance and you’ve decided that it’s time to scale, let’s talk about the right setup.
The modern age has brought us lots of new ways to take a growing site and scale it. From Amazon Web Services to cloud computing and grid computing, to Mosso and Akamai, there are lots of options we should consider. This article won’t make a recommendation as to which you should pick; it will simply discuss what each service has to offer and leave it up to you.
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