I can see the struggle if the requirement was to have it run on the same servers as the existing website, but any linux (or windows) server can run docker conta

I can see the struggle if the requirement was to have it run on the same servers as the existing website, but any linux (or windows) server can run docker containers. We just ran the backend and web frontend on a single Digital Ocean droplet, scaling as needed (we started with the $5/mo and it was fine)