I am interested to hear your stories and experiences concerning the need to scale your dedicated hosting infrastructure quickly. (your own or for a client) What where the reasons for the need to scale and where you able to accomplish scaling quickly or did you crash and burn?

Thanks in advance for sharing.

We grew 600% in only 5 months. We obviously had to scale up very quickly to accomodate this growth. If you can stay ahead of the growth and plan quickly, you will do fine.

Since we own all of our server and network equipment, we were not limited by another company, other than the DC to do this.

Depends how much power you need upfront. It may be wise to get a VPS from a host that allows you to scale up to dedicated server resources. Most VPSs run on 16 or 32GB machines with multi-processor. We allow our clients to upgrade their VPSs easily but most other VPS companies allow the same.

The number one rule in scalability is to design your software to run on multiple machines. For simple websites you can clone but sophisticated services may require multiple servers with synchronization.


PM me if you're interested.

Joe Ventura
AutomatedVPS.com

True, you can start with some reliable reseller hosting, work your way into a VPS and then on to a dedicated server. Then you can grow your servers and start offering the services you once were buying, and rely on your experiences (good and bad) to know what satifies customers and keeps them with you. Just be patient, you can grow too fast and have it blow up on you also.
In the long run, quality wins over quantity, keep a good balance of both.