Advice for my first real project

Hi guys,

This is gonna be my first serious project with Laravel and still don't how to start it. basically it's gonna be а website that users could post their advertisements, also search, chat, etc. and i wonder for system like this what is more appropriate to use. I guess it will have a lot of active users and requests, so i wonder if lets say throwing an event when creating particular advertisement is good. otherwise i don't know if the framework can handle so much request despite of its not rocket science. So i got two options for most advanced operations either to use few servers with load balancers (Digital Ocean or Linode) or just to use events and queues.

How do you handle 'a lot of request thing'?

Not sure if i explained it well but you opinions are more than welcomed.

Bobby