Sounds like a fun, challenging and worth it. It's one of my favourite past times to tinker with configuration and DevOps. In the past I went more bare metal with LUKS encryption, ZFS pools to be able to take snapshots, backup everything to an off-site and do all the updates myself.
In some cases it can provide advantages given the requirement, running up hours spend on maintenance 😊
Managed VPS is a concept that can proved the sweet spot between cost and effort. It's why Laravel Vapor has been amazing in the past with it's amazing scaling.
Even when starting out with a staging environment, a lot of experience will only present it self with real usage and customers.
Good luck, have fun and don't hesitate to ask, you have a community full of people with knowledge and willing to help 😅
Sounds like a fun, challenging and worth it. It's one of my favourite past times to tinker with configuration and DevOps. In the past I went more bare metal with LUKS encryption, ZFS pools to be able to take snapshots, backup everything to an off-site and do all the updates myself.
In some cases it can provide advantages given the requirement, running up hours spend on maintenance 😊
Managed VPS is a concept that can proved the sweet spot between cost and effort. It's why Laravel Vapor has been amazing in the past with it's amazing scaling.
Even when starting out with a staging environment, a lot of experience will only present it self with real usage and customers.
Good luck, have fun and don't hesitate to ask, you have a community full of people with knowledge and willing to help 😅
Thank you! Appreciate it. And yes, production always ends up presenting new challenges somehow haha