Matt Komarnicki

A shared hosting wins over VPS with its simplicity but is also has pretty serious limitations and doesn't scale up very well. On the other hand managing your own server raises a variety of responsibilities, one in particular is crucial to your business - managing an e-mail server. It is a difficult and absorbing task - not only it requires advanced knowledge in terms of configuration (IMAP, SMTP…

In most common situations you are going to let your web server handle all HTTP responses for you. Imagine a case where a client is requesting a file by accessing an unique URL → server takes an incoming request → looks for corresponding resource directly on a storage level and (assuming a file exists) responds with HTTP 200 OK status. That's how it works in a nutshell. What if prior to return a fi…