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Or in other words, you're not Google or Facebook. You almost certainly don't need the level of performance and architectural design those companies need for their billion + user systems.

And it doesn't help that a lot of people seem to drastically underestimate the amount of performance you can get from a simpler setup too. Like, a simple VPS can often do fine with millions of users a day, and a mostly static informational site (like your average blog or news site) could just put it behind Cloudflare and call it a day in most cases.

Alas, the KISS principle seems to have gone the way of the dodo.