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Why not using Caprover ? That's an open source self hosted PaaS that use Docker and let you configure almost everything through their GUI, as well as checking Logs, easily scale horizontally, spinning up Postgres/Redis/Next cloud or whichever docker images in one click and letting you communicate via different parts of your projects through environment variables set through the GUI.

That way instead of learning a new and likely less advanced framework you can use your favorite and likely more mature and well maintained backend framework and just deploy in a minute with caprover, as long as you can dockerize it it should work, you just have to write a single dockerfile ( they also have a way to not write dockerfiles directly and use their abstraction ).

You take advantage from the backed framework you already know with all its advantages and also benefit from Docker's huge community. Their UI is really good to be honest, you can enable and force https in one click and other goodies like that, DigitalOcean also have a preconfigured Ubuntu droplets with caprover preinstalled to make it even smoother.