Last week, during the Craft CMS Meetup, Alex De Smet did a great job explaining how Craft can scale to handle up to thousands of simultaneous connections. His personal mission to explain this very technical topic to non-sysadmins was a success. Afterwards, he was surrounded by developers who wanted to know more details.
Some takeaways:
- Renting an expensive VPS system for a year just because you want to make sure the launch of a new project goes well might not be the best strategy.
- Caching is key to scaling.
- Scaling vertically is easy, but has many pitfalls.
- Scaling horizontally is where the public cloud excels in.
- There is a thriving community around Craft CMS, and we’re happy to be part of it.
- vBridge is a cloud partner with experience in this field, and happy to help ;-)