5 years ago

Category: Laravel

There are lots and lots of good thoughts and stories over the internet about this. Mine is simple and greedy; I built an app to receive lots of traffic in a very small amount of time. And to achieve this, i needed a huge and powerful server to even start to think of handling that traffic.

After that massive surge of the traffic, there was a big silence on the server and i felt like my resources was running for nothing.

Get the id of the snapshot image of your server via doctl; Get the id of your load balancer via doctl; I’ve created a config file in my app and added those ids in it; I wrote simple bash scripts to create and destroy droplets based on master server’s image.