use a single database server until you can't afford to keep making it bigger.
Don't underestimate how big a challenge having multiple app servers will create - deploying code to each is only one of the problems.
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When we push code to app1, we need to push the same code to app2 also, right ? I mean, if I make changes to code on my local, what is the way to push the code to, say, 5 same-app servers ? Push to GitHub and have auto-deploy selected on all 5 servers ?
a. How do we sync the MySQL database across all 5 servers ? 2.. b. Can we use DigitalOcean's dedicated MySQL server as a common single database for all 5 same-app servers ?
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