@ultrazool @jarkman depending on budget I’d maybe be looking at something like fly.io + maybe S3 for that sort of thing. tbh though if AWS & co are out of budget I think any container hosting solutions will be as well once you’ve got the database hosted, you may well find it cheaper to throw it on a cheap VM somewhere even if it doesn’t strictly need one.
@jon @jarkman interesting, if inevitably "cloud == $$$", there's nothing committing me to containerisation apart from ease. it's a simple app design with initally a closed beta so we don't expect a lot of traffic or resource usage. Eyeing up cheap Hetzner VMs now... https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/
@ultrazool @jarkman containerisation has its advantages but if you’re doing it for cheap interchangeable compute that’s not really compatible with running a SQL database, so you’ll end up paying as much again (or more) for someone to host Postgres for you. If you can get away with SQLite, and host the API and UI in a single container Fly have some interesting options that could work though.