Understanding Auto-Scaling with AutoPress

Never Worry About Traffic Again

One of the core promises of AutoPress is effortless scalability. But what does “auto-scaling” truly mean in our serverless context? Let’s break it down.

Traditional Scaling vs. Serverless Auto-Scaling

Traditionally, scaling WordPress involved:

• Vertical Scaling: Increasing resources (CPU, RAM, Storage) on a single server. This has limits and can be expensive.

AutoPress takes a different approach, akin to how modern cloud functions (like AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions) operate:

1. Event-Driven Execution: When a request hits your AutoPress site, it triggers the necessary WordPress functions.
2. Ephemeral Instances: These functions run in lightweight, isolated compute instances.
3. Scale On Demand: If 100 users visit your site simultaneously, AutoPress can spin up multiple nodes (depending on avrage request time and the task) to handle those requests in parallel.
4. No Pre-Provisioning: You don’t need to guess your capacity needs beforehand, just deploy your site and let AutoPress handle the infrastructure.

This means your site remains fast and responsive, whether you have ten visitors or ten thousand, without any manual intervention or configuration changes on your part.