What is scaling / Why should you scale?
- What do the users try to achieve?
- A fast website
- Avoid downtime
- DR / Downtime checklist
- Backup Solutions
- Never code on a live site
- Have a staging site to test on
How to make sure, once your site isn’t going down, that it’s fast?
- Website performance matters
- Don’t take smallest server / poor hardware
- If you’re always about 80% of the limit, you need to upgrade.
- Monitor Speed / Performance
- Often it is not the server that causes the problem.
- Majority of issues with performance are with the website itself.
- Caching
- Everything that helps you reduce database calls is important
- CDN
- Global solution of servers
- Serves website in areas closest to your customers
