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Wouldn't it be much better to tech the concept of horizontal scalability applied to the application stack? Your server is a stack of interfaces: a frontend cache, a static content server, a dynamic content server and a database. You can horizontally scale each stack layer. Much simpler, applicable to different scenarios.

However, this approach won't give you a viral article title like "eight server setups for your app" (replace eight by 2^n where n is the layer count).



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