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5 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application

Updated on January 7, 2023
👁 5 Common Server Setups For Your Web Application

Introduction

When deciding which server architecture to use for your environment, there are many factors to consider, such as performance, scalability, availability, reliability, cost, and management.

In this tutorial, you will learn about commonly used server setups, with a short description of each, including the pros and cons. Keep in mind that all of the concepts covered here can be used in various combinations with one another and that every environment has different requirements, so there is no single correct configuration.

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And Google App Engine gives all of that for free, plus

  1. Master-master replication, which gives you almost infinite horizontal scaling.
  2. Automatically replicates your data over datacenters/continents, so even whole datacenter failure won’t make your unavaliable.
  3. Serves static content (HTML, CSS, JS, images) without even touching your server, from Google’s distributed Content Delivery Network.
  4. Secures HTTPS requests automatically, no need to obtain/install/manage SSL certificates.
  5. Many more.

And all of that automatically, you don’t worry how it works inside.

But GAP only supports some languages… you can’t compare

#5 could be it’s own article.

lovely article though.

Awesome article, can you write another one that includes Snort level security threat detection? ;)

@dlazerka whilst we’re at it, why don’t we suck all of the fun out of the web development as well, and just go for a prebuilt system? Recommending people use something out of the tin rather than learning how it works is setting them up for failure. Live a little, learn a little.

What happens when a load balancer fails? any alternative of common setups?

incredible article! well served!

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