Scaling Your Server

With using our DMC, users can deploy single virtual machines, so called virtual dedicated servers. These can only be scaled up to a certain amount of ressources (see your Account settings in the DMC).
It is possible to scale the ressources of a single VDS up to the amount of ressources of the underlying physical server. In a typical grid a single physical server has up to 16 GB of RAM and 8 CPU cores (Intel Xeon 2000 Mhz).

For some of our users, this might still not be enough. Bigger applications (such as ecommerce sites, portals, …) will need more ressources than a single physical server can give them. Therefore ScaleUp divides bigger applications into multiple tiers. A typical LAMP (Linux Apache Php Mysql) installation would be divided into a firewall gateway, a webserver and a database server (see image below).
ScaleUp LAMP Application

Each tier is a single virtual machine. Therefore ressources of an application can be scaled to the ressources of multiple physical servers.