Multiple containers vs bigger containers in Galaxy

deployment
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Hi,

When deploying meteor apps to Galaxy, what are the advantages of scaling by changing the size of containers versus increasing the number of containers?

When are 2 standard containers better than one double container and vice versa, considering both options cost the same?

Thanks in advance.

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In my opinion - multiple should be the default - it gives you reliability (in case one server crashes, or gets pegged by a single heavy request).

The only situations I’d choose to scale up rather than out is:

  1. Your resource usage doesn’t scale with connections (e.g., you have some baseline memory/CPU requirements).
  2. Your application wasn’t designed to support multiple hosts (e.g., inconsistencies or re-running things, etc)

Things get more interesting when you already have multiple servers - choosing whether to scale up/out at that point can depend on a few other things

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Thanks for your reply, I had something along those lines in mind but wasn’t quite sure about it :slight_smile: