Scale from ONE server to MANY!

We are pleased to announce that our most requested feature, the ability to scale from a single server to multiple ones, has just been added as a LAMP stack role.

Here’s an image of how it works:

You can find it under the new Mixed Roles category, where we’ll continue to add Pre-made images for whole stacks.

This image is particularly awesome because it allows you to run a single server, with all the functionality of a whole server farm with load balancer, apache, and mysql, at a fraction of the cost, typically one third. When load increases on this server, a second server is added, and serves http requests like the first one, but also acts as a mysql slave.

The only configuration required in your application to use this, is to direct reads to localhost but writes to your int-mysql-master subdomain (details).

Enjoy!