Scalr is not an infrastructure provider or reseller. The infrastructure you deploy on is yours: you give us the keys to your infrastructure cloud so we can make the API calls to the provider on your behalf and so we can also rev up or power down servers for you. Your cloud provider bills you directly for the resources you consume. Scalr does not take a cut on this process (though we can’t say the same for our competitors).
With your keys, we can create some scalable infrastructure for you. In the Scalr app, you can pick the components that will compose your server farm.
From here you can click to display different components (like Memcached, Apache, or MySQL) and add them to a “Server Farm.”
You can configure the behavior of each of these components by clicking on them. This allows you to set auto-scaling thresholds, backup intervals, snapshot rotation, and a ton more!
It doesn’t take much to configure auto-scaling: set a minimum and maximum amount of instances you want that farm to run, choose your algorithms (in this case we have Load Averages couple with Free Ram), set the thresholds, and voilà! You’re ready to take on the world.
Hit the save button to save this infrastructure “blueprint.” Create copies by cloning it (useful to create MySQL shards), or launch instances for launching the farm.
