What kind of scaling method is it, when you add new software to a single server to handle more users? [on hold]
- by Phil
I have read about scaling (in terms of terminology and methods). This got me confused about the following:
On a single computer, running a web server (say apache), if the system administrator adds a front, caching, reverse-proxy such as Varnish, which in that scenario increase the amount of requests this server is able to handle.
My question:
Setting up such cache increases the capacity of the server to handle work, hence scales it, but without increasing neither the amount of nodes or the node's capacity.
What is the name for this type of scaling?
