BRIEF
Imagine that you meet with a small startup company in the early stages of their
operations. Currently their architecture uses a LAMP stack with MySQL, Apache and PHP all running on one desktop
PC within their small office. Like many small start-ups they are confident that they will be the next big thing and expect
significant, rapid, yet un-quantified growth in the next few months. With this in mind, they are concerned about:
scaling to meet the demand, but with uncertainty around when and