Knowledge Check Quiz | Website Architecture & Deployment

Q1: A startup with 2 developers needs to launch an MVP in 2 weeks. They expect ~200 users initially. What's the best hosting choice?

AWS EKS with Kubernetes PaaS (Railway or Render) Self-hosted bare metal server Multi-region cloud deployment

Q2: Your website serves static HTML/CSS/JS with no backend logic. What's the most cost-effective and performant hosting?

VPS with Nginx AWS EC2 instance CDN-based hosting (Cloudflare Pages, Netlify) Kubernetes cluster

Q3: What does the "3-2-1 backup rule" mean?

Backup every 3 hours, keep 2 copies, 1 week retention 3 copies, 2 different media types, 1 offsite 3 servers, 2 databases, 1 load balancer 3 environments, 2 regions, 1 CDN

Q4: When should you consider migrating from PaaS to VPS/IaaS?

Immediately — PaaS is never suitable for production When monthly PaaS costs exceed what a VPS + your time would cost Only when you have more than 1 million users Never — always stay on PaaS

Q5: What is the primary purpose of a reverse proxy?

To replace your application server entirely To sit between clients and your app, handling SSL, load balancing, caching, and security To store your database backups To compile your application code

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