Infrastructure

Scaling

Scaling is making a system handle more work, whether that is more visitors, more orders, or more stored data, without falling over. It is done either by moving to a bigger machine or by adding more machines that share the load. Most modern hosting can scale automatically, adding capacity during a rush and releasing it afterward.

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