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My website Services stack.

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  Table of contents The code Server stack Data Management     Mysql      Sessions     Deployment Secrets Load Balancing     Traefik      Cert-Manager Introduction   I n this post I will talk about the services that are running my sites along with reasoning behind each. Similar to my website infrastructure post I will not be doing any How-Tos but format it as a birds-eye view of how my stack is implemented. The Code     Most of my dynamic code is written in PHP, from my registration/Social site to my contact form. It's a well tested language which made it a very good language to learn and program with. In addition  many frameworks and libraries are written in php and let's not forget some of the biggest platforms in the history of the web are created using PHP like WordPress, Shopify, and Facebook (HHVM).   Although php is a great and powerful language, I plan on moving to Nodejs for a variety of reasons. One of the beauties of Node is it much easier to build  applications wit

My Website infrastructure Stack

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A little background Throughout this post I will go through the technology stack and the reasons I chose each part of the stack. I won't be creating any How Tos in this article to keep it short enough to not lose attention but I will be creating independent articles for each part of the stack. The goal of my website is two parts. One, for it to be a distributed cluster so I can loose any one part of my website and it will proceed to work. The second goal is to be able to recreate it from a few simple files in a few minutes on any provider.  The Provider The main reason I chose AWS was the credits I was offered as a student. If you think about it a pretty strong marketing move, get students hooked on the ecosystem so when they go into the workforce they convince their employers to switch or migrate to AWS. But the real question should be why did I stick AWS. Although I've primarily worked with AWS, I've worked with some other cloud providers like Azure and GCP and AWS does wi