Reading some discussions between developers or software architects, one might think that the smallest web application today requires a distributed infrastructure, a Kubernetes cluster, and several specialized cloud services.
Yet many web services (including those that receive several thousand visitors per day) can work perfectly well with a much simpler architecture.
Here is a hands-on account of the infrastructure I use for my production projects, some of which exceed 5,000 daily visitors, and which I also applied for years during a cybersecurity competition with more than 250 on-site participants.
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