[beginnings]

What percentage of projects ever need that scale? Is it not something crazy like 95% of startups fail? A lot of the successful ones will be in niche categories as well that just don't have scale problems like major social media and tech companies.

[re-thc]

Even then most VPS providers offer a load balancer and you can add multiple VPS. It's not so black and white on 1 server vs infinite scaling. There are midpoints.

[TobyTheDog123]

Yes, but the second you grow beyond one server the complexity of keeping both in sync, sharding the database, etc etc etc, makes it way more simple to just write a worker and let another company handle it.

[moneywoes]

Can I do that with something like a digital ocean droplet?

[re-thc]

Like https://www.digitalocean.com/products/load-balancer ?

[moneywoes]

yep, ty