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Abhi324's avatar

Laravel Scaling - Using default laravel setting / eloquent etc..

Hello , I'm a huge fan of laravel and i'm building a new "social-media" type website using this framework . However i have some concerns . I saw several posts where users are saying that laravel can barely handle a few thousand users/connections based on the default settings .

I am hoping to make my website scalable and that can handle 10k , 100k and even 1000k users if it comes to that . My question is , can i achieve that easily using the default laravel configurations / eloquent etc...

I'm following the 5.2 docs for Authentication using all default configurations .

Note : I'll be hosting on Azure Cloud Services + Sql Database (Hardware scalability should not be an issue)

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usama.ashraf's avatar
Level 7

This is more of a server-level concern than an application-level issue.

  • Use Nginx for starters.
  • Use caching to speed-up responses.
  • Use PHP 7

A million concurrent connections? Check out Google App Engine too.

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