Company offering compute and expensive hosted DBs, thus making SQLite difficult to use? Color me surprised :-) For use cases similar to yours, I'd probably bit

Company offering compute and expensive hosted DBs, thus making SQLite difficult to use? Color me surprised :-) For use cases similar to yours, I'd probably bite the bullet with a raw VM from somewhere and manually configure systemd and Caddy on it and manually upgrade Caddy on it from time to time. We would probably get a re-usable Caddyfile and systemd unit from this initial setup, making it even easier to change VMs later if needed. It's so simple, it doesn't need a PaaS. I really appreciate all your replies and sharing your experiences. It's helping me think through deploying my own side projects which, you guessed it, will use Caddy and systemd on a VM somewhere.