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Load balancer is not a magic bullet. It only expands the compute. Your DB, static pages, storage are all bottlenecks. Don't get me wrong, I am just wondering i

• wwalser 10y ago
  > Load balancer is not a magic bullet. It only expands the compute. Your DB, static pages, storage are all bottlenecks. I think we can make the generous assumption that you've profiled and decided that compute is the problem and not static pages or DB. If that were the case, why would you not use DO load balancing? > I am just wondering if digital ocean wants to be AWS. No, they want to be better than AWS. They absolutely want that AWS $$$. Selling to devs who create "MVPs" and prototypes might pay the bills for now but if they are going to grow into their valuation they need larger clients. Seems likely that large clients wanted load balancing.