How to Scale a Mid‑Size Website: From Caching to Search Indexes

This article walks through the evolution of a medium‑traffic website’s architecture, covering early rapid development, the introduction of caching, database‑app separation, read/write splitting, horizontal scaling with additional servers, and the later addition of full‑text search to handle millions of daily visits.

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How to Scale a Mid‑Size Website: From Caching to Search Indexes

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Sep 13, 2014 · Operations

How to Build a Scalable Small Website: From Thousands to Millions of Daily Visits

This article systematically outlines the essential steps and considerations—ranging from language choice, version control, hardware and data center selection, to architecture, software, database, storage, and code optimization—to help a small website scale from a few thousand daily visits to millions while avoiding costly pitfalls.

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How to Build a Scalable Small Website: From Thousands to Millions of Daily Visits