[thathonkey]

The "running from a single box" at the end seems like it could be the most important part of the equation. Would you agree? Or rather, would that be the recommended place to start optimizing if your app runs into scaling problems?

[imslavko]

Here is a very fine blog posts series on scaling Meteor horizontally, please consider looking at it: https://meteorhacks.com/pro-meteor/

[thathonkey]

Interesting, thanks. In that first blog post it mentions that Meteor serves static files. Is that a requirement?

edit: posted too soon they talk about it here https://meteorhacks.com/does-meteor-scale.html

[arunoda]

And you can use cloudflare or some other CDN very easily. See: https://meteorhacks.com/cloudflare-meets-meteor.html

[imslavko]

No, it is not a requirement. Meteor also supports serving static files from a CDN.

[swartkrans]

I don't know how you could load balance meteor easily, but you could put your mongodb instance anywhere and pass in its location to meteor. This doubles your risk for downtime because of hardware failure though, your uptime is no longer as good as a system that depends on the uptime of a single machine.