Standalone models
Most small or ad hoc web applications at some point or another were hosted on a physical or virtual server and within a single monolithic installation, and this is commonly encountered in simpler self-hosted applications such as a small or medium business web page, inventory service, ticketing systems, and so on. As these applications or their associated databases grow, it becomes necessary to separate the components or modules to better support the scale and integrate with adjacent applications and data stores.
These applications tend to use commonly available turnkey web frameworks such as Drupal, WordPress, Joomla!, Django, or a multitude of other frameworks, each of which includes a content delivery manager and language ...
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