How can I horizontally scale a Laravel 4 app?

Hi, I'm new to this framework and i've never done anything about scalability in any application i've developed. For a project in college, I was asked to horizontally scale a web application i've developed in Laravel.

I started watching the Laravel Forge series, but the thing is that I have to deploy my application in my own web server, without using any of this tools.

I was wondering if somebody could give me some advice at this!

Thanks a lot!

RayRutjes

11 years ago

Level 4

Hi @nmunera, horizontal scaling means that you must be able to add servers into your pool of resources. A common practice is to put your database on one server and to create some read replicas on other servers for example.And for the application, just deploy your Laravel app on any amount of servers behind a load balancer for example.

psmail

11 years ago

Level 5

Lots of information here - https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/forge/scaling-with-laravel-and-forge.

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