[moralestapia]

Yeah, nowadays you could just scale-up and still have a lot of leeway. A high-end server (w/ redundancy maybe) is more than enough for 95% of all common startup use cases.

Distributed computing only makes sense when you're starting to deal with millions of daily users.

[efortis]

Yes. HN works well with one dual socket server (2 x 4)

A new server could have 4 × 64.

Also, to distribute the load you can use an ‘A’ DNS record per server:

https://blog.uidrafter.com/freebsd-jails-network-setup