The classical way, and the only way available in the pre-cloud era, is to just deploy everything on your own premises. You need to buy all the hardware and software required and make sure it will provide enough capacity for your needs. If you're working for a start-up company, this may be a big upfront cost. Along with the growth of your userbase, you need to buy and set up more resources so that your service can deal even with the occasional spikes in load. All this means you need to predict the growth of your solution and act proactively, as there's no way you could just automatically scale depending on the current load.
Even in the cloud era, deploying on-premises is still useful and often spotted in the wild. Sometimes you're dealing with data that shouldn't, or even can't, leave your company's premises, either due to data privacy issues or compliance ones. Other times, you need to have as little latency as possible and you need your...
