Best practices align with scale. Technologists rush to implement the shiny shiny stuff you mentioned, but in most cases simplicity is the best solution until th

Best practices align with scale. Technologists rush to implement the shiny shiny stuff you mentioned, but in most cases simplicity is the best solution until there is an actual scale problem to address. That said, I bet at HN scale, it could be cloud-hosted pretty cheaply with ECS/Cloudfront. Maybe even just in S3 with a small RDS instance. Or in cloudflare as was discussed.