Plesk Official Podcast

Tips for scaling your web hosting

Episode Summary

Scaling your website should be a good problem to have. But many think it's just a hardware problem. In this episode, Jan Loeffler tells us why customers want to scale, and why throwing hardware at a website isn't usually the right solution.

Episode Notes

What is scaling / Why should you scale?

• What do the users try to achieve?
  • A fast website
  • Avoid downtime
• DR / Downtime checklist
  • Backup Solutions
  • Never code on a live site
    • Have a staging site to test on

How to make sure, once your site isn’t going down, that it’s fast?

• Website performance matters
• Don’t take smallest server / poor hardware
  • If you’re always about 80% of the limit, you need to upgrade.
• Monitor Speed / Performance
  • Often it is not the server that causes the problem.
  • Majority of issues with performance are with the website itself.
• Caching
  • Everything that helps you reduce database calls is important
• CDN
  • Global solution of servers
  • Serves website in areas closest to your customers