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Multi-tier (more than one server for my application, load balancer, web servers, database server...)

I would love to have the option of setting up a multi-server application for more targeted and cost effective scaling. For instance, Say I could create a Wordpress site with a dedicated DB server, a dedicated load balancer, and a dedicated Web server. As my site grows, I can scale the specific part that is needed. If my site is gets a lot of views (reads), but doesn't make many writes, scaling my existing web server (or adding another instance) may be what's needed. If I'm running a WooCommerce site and start pushing the limits of my db server, increasing the resources or implementing replication might make more sense. It would be really great to have that level of control when growing a site.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Is there an ETA for the alpha or beta on this?

  • Mark commented  ·   ·  Report

    Something that would set Cloudways apart from other hosts is to give customers the tools to create a fault tolerant solution. A lot of the parts already exist externally, but there are components that have to be done at the hosting level such as database replication.

    There are a lot of unhappy customers at other hosts (e.g. shared hosting) because those hosts do not engineer their networks against DDoS. And this is a huge opportunity for Cloudways to gain customers.

  • Shawn commented  ·   ·  Report

    I've been building a rather large multi-tenant web app and this would be awesome!

  • Jamie commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hey @Cloudways

    On 30 March 2017 you said "We expect to have an alpha version available at the end of the second quarter".

    Hows that Alpha version going?

    Cheers,

    J

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please support load balancer, this will help my site.

  • Steven Wright commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yeah, this would make Cloudways perfect. The sooner the better for this really!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Scale by adding more machines into your pool of resources

  • Ajith commented  ·   ·  Report

    This feature will be will availability that will make life easier. I second Jamie

  • Dhruv commented  ·   ·  Report

    I am agree with Jamie, if these feature will be will availability that will make life really easier.

    Dhruv

  • Jamie commented  ·   ·  Report

    I want to be able to create server infrastructure on Cloudways like:

    1) Separate Database Server
    2) Load Balancer (Reverse Proxy)
    3) HTTP Accelerator (Caching Reverse Proxy)
    4) Master-Slave Database Replication
    5) Ability of Combining the Concepts (load balancer + cache + replication Example)

    See this link for more information: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/5-common-server-setups-for-your-web-application

  • John commented  ·   ·  Report

    Digital Ocean recently launched a load balancing feature. It would ideal to have this option in Cloudways as soon as possible!

  • Lui commented  ·   ·  Report

    Absolutely, is this feasible currently in any way?

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    +1 for this. Yes please enable this feature as it helps when handling databases with massive data. Doing DB dumps back and forth regular basis is not a viable solution.

    Randika

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Digital Ocean Today announced Managed Load Balances today. would be great if you exten the same to us so that we can take the high Availability advantage for mission critical projects.

    Thanks

  • Blake Whittle commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any updates on the clustering feature mentioned here: "For customers who need all cluster features, we have started to work on a cluster option based on containers that could be deployed on top of any infrastructure with a minimum number of three servers. We will be performing R&D throughout Q4."

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