Cloud Scaling

A large marketing database can be a huge burden with the tiered contact pricing of marketing automation platforms such as HubSpot, Pardot, or Marketo. The annual pricing for 100,000 contacts, even with Mautic Cloud, starts at no less than $15…

Redundant Load Balancing with HAProxy & Keepalived on Ubuntu 18.04

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Scaling, HAProxy, Load Balancing

HAProxy is one of the most popular open source load balancers available in the market today. Although many sysadmins have turned to managed load balancers such as Amazon ALB (Application Load Balancer) or DigitalOcean Load Balancers to horizontally scale their…

Scaling Out a Mautic Cluster with Multiple App Servers

Open Source Apps

best practices, Cloud Scaling, Mautic

One of the most significant challenges of self-hosting Mautic is scaling the infrastructure to meet the demand as your marketing database grows. Most first-time users of Mautic start off with the application hosted on a single server with Apache/Nginx, PHP,…

Automating Let’s Encrypt HTTPS Behind a Load Balancer

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Scaling, Cybersecurity, SSL Certificates

Let’s Encrypt has become the de-facto Certificate Authority for automating certificate management with web applications. The certbot ACME (Automated Certificate Management Environment) client can completely automate the issuance, renewal, and installation process for SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt, making it…

PHP Session Storage for Load Balanced Applications

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Scaling, Load Balancing, Session Storage

In our previous article Building a Load Balanced LAMP Cluster we illustrated how to construct a simple scale-out architecture for a LAMP application with multiple backend servers. For simplicity, one of the important considerations for a production deployment which had…

Building a Load Balanced LAMP Cluster

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud Scaling, High Availability, Load Balancing

Load balancing is an essential tool for architecting a cloud infrastructure that can scale web applications across two servers or more. Most applications quickly outgrow a single LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl/Python) server, so the first step is typically breaking…

Cloud Scaling

Hosting Large Instances of Mautic with Horizontal Scaling

Redundant Load Balancing with HAProxy & Keepalived on Ubuntu 18.04

Scaling Out a Mautic Cluster with Multiple App Servers

Automating Let’s Encrypt HTTPS Behind a Load Balancer

PHP Session Storage for Load Balanced Applications

Building a Load Balanced LAMP Cluster