[impressivemess]

Why don't you use GAE or Cloud run on GCP? They have a big enough free tier that you won't have to pay even up to thousand or so users.

The only cost would be storage, if you're going to use SQL. But then again cheap enough.

I'd suggest porting to key/value pair DBs like mongo or firestore.

[_t2kx]

GAE/Cloud Run are certainly possibilities, I'll have to look into them.

> I'd suggest porting to key/value pair DBs like mongo or firestore.

Why? The data set feels pretty "relational" to me (contests have divisions, divisions have scorings and results, results have players, players have sponsors) and seems to fit SQL. To be fair though, I've not used Mongo or Firestore or a NoSQL db in general before.

The "scorings" part is the only thing that tripped me up designing a schema since it varies between divisions in a contest as well as between contests themselves, so I ended up w/ a JSONB column for scoring rubric for divisions and then in the results table there's both final_score and scoring_breakdown columns, the beakdown being another JSONB column w/ the individual category results.