For my personal projects (that right now seem to revolve around April 1st jokes for people in my industry) - I've found a good middle ground to be K3s on a sing

For my personal projects (that right now seem to revolve around April 1st jokes for people in my industry) - I've found a good middle ground to be K3s on a single Hetzner VM that I scale up and down if I think more/less people are going to be looking at it (i.e. between the 5 - 10 dollar/month price range) I set this up with Terraform and some bash scripts. Infra as code is just too convenient to pass up on for something that I might not come back to for months at a time (and then ask - how did I set that up?), and containers too mean that I can play with some shiny fun technology one time, leave it in a box, and then come back to a clean-slate for the next thing that I want to play with without having to pay for a new VM etc.