[tpoacher]

It was more along the lines of a website powered by an online database, rather than anything to do with a locally installable client. The webhost provider did not support neo4j, the project was a hobby project so we did not want to buy a professional virtual server, and commercial neo4j-online solutions were prohibitive for what we wanted to do.

I haven't used docker much, but I don't know how it could help here (unless you misunderstood and were referring to locally installable software).

[joshspankit]

I can see the struggle if the requirement was to have it run on the same servers as the existing website, but any linux (or windows) server can run docker containers.

We just ran the backend and web frontend on a single Digital Ocean droplet, scaling as needed (we started with the $5/mo and it was fine)