Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have one small online sale business
but I want to make it scalable at limited expense and so am
looking out at various services which can help me make my
business scalable.  I was looking into Amazon Web Services and
it seems to be a viable option.  Are there any other ways for
adding scalability to small online businesses ?  share|improve
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accepted  Scalability has to be well thought out. You should
make sure your current architecture is designed to scale. Just
adding more hardware is not a good solution. If you think your
current implementation performs well and you do not need to tune
it to respond faster or handle more traffic, then moving it to
the cloud is a good idea so that adding more hardware is easy.
If thats not the case, then you should concentrate on things
like DB tuning, caching (maybe use memcached and akamai) and
performance optimization before you start thinking about porting
it to some other technology.