I think the real lesson here should be to use managed services whenever possible. There is just no excuse to manage your own infra on the VPS level for a typica

I think the real lesson here should be to use managed services whenever possible. There is just no excuse to manage your own infra on the VPS level for a typical web app in 2021. There are a myriad of PaaS providers where legacy VPS setups can be migrated to without too much pain.