First time I reached the front page I had ~250 concurrent users and increasing, then the server crashed. After that I wrote a cronjob that runs a script which automatically increases my virtual machines RAM. When I have little or no visits it uses 1GB RAM the most it went up to was 9GB RAM (increasing with 1GB at a time). It also sends me an e-mail when increasing/decreasing the RAM so I can ensure that it doesn't cr…
Which provider is that? AWS? I feel like it's only a matter of time before auto-scaling works well enough that it's just a standard feature.
Glesys http://www.glesys.com/ they have server centers in Sweden, New York and Amsterdam (from what I can remember...)