After doing this sort of thing (except using mostly Ruby or Python apps) for years, then evolved to running a bunch of lightweight containerised services about

After doing this sort of thing (except using mostly Ruby or Python apps) for years, then evolved to running a bunch of lightweight containerised services about 6 or so years ago and these days I mostly opt for deploying using Google Cloud Run, far less hassle, less maintenance, a significantly reduced (security) footprint and absolutely minimal cost, someone else recently wrote a good intro blogpost about their experiences with it: https://alexolivier.me/posts/deploy-container-stateless-cheap-google-cloud-run-serverless https://alexolivier.me/posts/deploy-container-stateless-chea...