i have been pondering the same lately because my internet got upgraded and so far i decided against the pies because of resiliency. My go to setup plan right n

i have been pondering the same lately because my internet got upgraded and so far i decided against the pies because of resiliency. My go to setup plan right now is 3 8 core 16 thread mini pcs because they dont use anywhere near as much power as a full setup and still allow me to run a small kubernetes cluster. My main reason for the cluster is not because its fancy, but this way i can actually update my services without downtime and the underlying machines too. As other have mentioned, make use of cloudflare and the different services it provides and you shall have a simple secure setup that can handle a magnitude of loads. As for the app: the true enemy will be rate limiting for you. But if you decide to take a frontend that is chacheable by cloudflare you should be golden with a queue based setup. Pingdom does that perfectly for instance with their speed tests for websites.