Totally. And whilst I've used most provisioning tools (quite liking packer and terraform), for my own stuff I have a file with notes and snippets. Follow that

Totally. And whilst I've used most provisioning tools (quite liking packer and terraform), for my own stuff I have a file with notes and snippets. Follow that file and within less than 10 minutes I've got a working server with Postgres, Nginx, and LetsEncrypt, and it's ready for Git push-to-deploy. Simplicity is what you need, for as long as you can get away with it. Simplicity and backups.