I throw together plenty of simple sites intended for personal use or just a small group. I don't need nor want the added complexity of going for HA. I can easily spin up a cheap VPS with an SSD and scale amazingly far with one instance and a SQLite DB. When it's for personal use or small group it's not a problem to take it offline for maintenance/deploys. I don't even use a load balancer (tho I often throw nginx in front to do mTLS and compression). I can build a site like that in 30 minutes.
I deal with massive scale all day every day for work (kuberntes/openshift/public clouds) so I find the simplicity amazingly refreshing.
I might also say the performance of my "single box" websites is also amazingly good. I've had even developer friends ask me how I get response times so fast, and they are often surprised when I tell them.
I deal with massive scale all day every day for work (kuberntes/openshift/public clouds) so I find the simplicity amazingly refreshing.
I might also say the performance of my "single box" websites is also amazingly good. I've had even developer friends ask me how I get response times so fast, and they are often surprised when I tell them.