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# Elastic deployment
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 There are many scenarios where a single-server deployment may not be sufficient for your website. In these situations, you need a multi-server, scalable architecture. 

**Topics**
+ [Reference architecture](reference-architecture.md)
+ [Scaling the web tier](scaling-the-web-tier.md)
+ [Stateless web tier](stateless-web-tier.md)