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Have you considered AWS? Their free tier (free for one year) gives you a server + database that could probably host the website. Not managed but the price is right...

Start with a cheap server and see what happens - you never know with performance, the current db setup looks very conservative so it might run fine (especially if you...

Yes - according to aws a managed lightsail db will perform common maintenance tasks for you, like patching the underlying database infrastructure and operating system, and upgrading databases between minor...

Right - I'm talking about the common case (for me at least) where a bug in the code causes a process to crash. A cron job can be used to...

Getting things setup in docker is very worthwhile, then you are completely VPS provider independent and security updates on the underlying server should be as simple as apt update /...