[skrtskrt]

Seconded, I'm on DigitalOcean App Platform, with further plans to self-manage it more either on individual droplets or a RKE2 cluster built on droplets, but I keep on kicking the can down the road because I don't need any more complexity

[JanSt]

Why do you want so self manage? Saving a few bucks is probably not worth the hassle. I pretty much spend zero time on infra

* push to deploy

* auto-restart

* managed db

* easy scaling

* s3 object storage

* don‘t spend time on updates

* web ui (monitoring, basic logging, configuration, ..)

[systemvoltage]

I go the other way. No docker, just bare metal server with 4 cores and it can handle a shitton of traffic.

- Debian OS, fully locked down (all ports closed except SSH, with limiter).

- SSH + rsync to deploy app. I don't have a risk factor of managing dependencies between dev and prod, so I eliminated docker.

- SQLite db that gets thrown on S3 every hour using a python script. I don't want streaming anything. Just hourly backups is good enough.

- Cloudflare tunnel to connect to outside world and serve requests.

It is fast, cheap and requires not much "infra" knowledge. Of course this is for solo devs and small companies.

[skrtskrt]

really just for my own infra-management education, not any functional reason