What does scale horizontally and scale vertically mean?

satish picture satish · Mar 23, 2011 · Viewed 51.5k times · Source

In a three layer architecture with the database on the fourth, what does scaling horizontally and scaling vertically mean?

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edmz picture edmz · Mar 23, 2011

In simple terms, to scale horizontally is adding more servers. Vertically to increase the resources of the server.

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