Heard this week from a Black Friday debrief: a 'scalable' plan throttled at the worst possible hour. Word is most managed 'autoscaling' is a soft visit allowance with overage billing, not real horizontal scaling — and some hosts rate-limit or queue you past the burst ceiling rather than spin new capacity. A source near one platform says the autoscale story is mostly a billing model dressed as engineering. The advice to 'let it scale' assumes elasticity you're not actually buying.
Watch this: if the plan describes scaling in 'visits' not 'instances,' it's a meter, not a cluster.
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'Managed hosting autoscales, traffic spikes are handled' — read the burst clause
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