To be fair, half of the used services do not have anything to do with the website itself but with the whole business around it. Also, most of the tools do not r

To be fair, half of the used services do not have anything to do with the website itself but with the whole business around it. Also, most of the tools do not require a PhD in computer science; neither Rollbar nor Cloudflare are actually hard to set up. Still, you have a valid point. The setup described here is not boring at all and not easy, I expected a one-root-server-for-everything that runs some PHP and MySQL.