One Server. Small Business

I want to upvote this 100x

Do not underestimate the power of a single server to host you app. Sure it won't work in _all_ situations but omg you can get so much out of a single $30/month VPS .. we've been indoctrinated that everything needs to be on hyperclouds and mega scale. But that brings so much cost and complexity that most applciations don't need.

Something worth adding to the list: Enable rate limiting.

I'm also running my business on a single server, works perfectly, except for one time when someone tried to find some content with hash IDs through bruteforce. No problem, a tiny VPS can handle one malicious user. Except the amount of errors logged by nginx filled up the disk.

Nice setup! I think containerization is worth considering if you have multiple applications.

I run 5-7 on one server, with DB, using CapRover on a $5/month Hetzner server. Serve probably around 5k users.

This looks like a "send-only" server.

> sudo ufw default deny incoming

Seriously, what does one do when accepting connections, given the onslaught of data-hungry bots out there?

I wouldn't want to deal with that in any upcoming planned servers and services.