Learning How To Scale The Hard Way

“Put an out-of-the-box webserver configuration on your machines, do not optimize it at all and your servers will DIE!”

“Stop planning in advance and your servers are likely to DIE”

“Forget about caching and you will either waste a lot of money on hardware or your servers will die!”

“Put a few hundred thousand small files in one folder, run out of Inodes and your server will die!”

6 Ways To Kill Your Servers - Learning How To Scale The Hard Way