Horizontal Scale vs. Vertical Scale Solutions for Cloud Hosting
The Importance of a Forward-Looking Architecture When Addressing Problems of Scalability
When it comes to addressing issues of web server scale, there is a common misconception that hardware is a less expensive fix than software. When a single application is dragging the whole system down, it is tempting to use software like docker to distribute these problem applications onto other machines, rather than consider a move to managed cloud hosting and a Horizontal Scale solution. It is tempting to throw more and more computing resources at the issue. But this approach fails to address the total cost of ownership and technical debt accumulated in the long term. Using a distributed computing mentality and scaling horizontally is a good option for the modern enterprise, and paired cloud hosting can make it simple to meet changing computing demands or scale, like during Black Friday.
The issue of scaling is one that is essential to a business’s operation and success. Attacking these problems without third-party expertise leads to over-investing in hardware solutions you already know while neglecting the software or considering a better cloud-hosted solution you don’t quite know as well. The very software that is hoarding resources and causing the need to scale is often ignored. This happens naturally because most enterprise IT admins are busy serving the demands of a growing enterprise and can’t spend the time to educate themselves on newer cloud-based solutions. Addressing these problems in new ways, the first time ensures a stable foundation that a company can bring into the future. Setting up a horizontally scalable, cloud-hosted, distributed computing system is daunting and fraught with ‘landmines’. Cloud providers go down. Data is lost. Software and APIs are updated, connections are broken. How are these problems handled in your experience?
Motiv offers a solution to these scalability issues. Motiv’s team of experts and SaaS software will ensure these problems are no longer even a thought. In the event hosting (on-prem, cloud-hosted, hybrid cloud, it doesn’t matter to Motiv) goes down, comprehensive disaster recovery tools are on your side to get back up and running with no data loss and in the shortest possible amount of time. Multiple cloud hosting providers can be chosen to increase the reliability of the system. Architectures and the way the individual pieces of the software stack communicate will be optimized for efficiency and to identify problem applications with greater accuracy. Organizations that take on these tasks without expertise often fail to ask themselves, “What is this software really costing us, when considering hardware, licenses, support, training, and time?” Having Motiv on your side, you can be confident that these problems will be solved from the bottom-up, starting with the basics of architecture to ensure better business outcomes and lower TCO.
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