[harg]

How come you compile your app on your deployment platform? I know Heroku does this, but wouldn't it be easier to compile your Rust app on a beefy CI server and then just ship a binary or container image to your deployment infra where you can size the server according to runtime load.

E.g. I use Fly.io for one of my apps. I build a container image as part of CI on Github Actions and then just push that image to Fly as part of a deploy. Fly never deals with a build step (although it can do that as well).

$5 is very cheap for the Hetzner server you describe though.

[satvikpendem]

Yeah I could but it's another hassle to figure out where to build and store those container images as I believe neither GitHub container repository nor Docker Hub are free for private images. I'm also not sure whether Coolify has Docker image support, so I've just been building and deploying on my server. It also does zero downtime deployments and queues builds so it doesn't bother me if the builds take longer than strictly necessary, because I won't have downtime anyway.