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J. BartlettBuilding Scalable PHP Web Applications Using the Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5212-3_5

5. Setting Up a Basic Cloud Cluster

Jonathan Bartlett1 
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Tulsa, OK, USA
 

At this point, we have a simple cloud application which works on a single server. While it is nice that we can put this on a server that we built just by pointing and clicking, this doesn’t take full advantage of the cloud. One of the goals of the cloud is to create an application cluster—a set of servers that work together to solve the problem, where the computing power can be expanded and contracted as needed.

5.1 A Simple Two-Tier Architecture

In this chapter, we will explore a simple, two-tier architecture. This architecture will consist of ...

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