Depends entirely on what is your starting skillset. K8s is my tool of choice when I am that boostrapped, because a single server with k3s thrown on it will cos

Depends entirely on what is your starting skillset. K8s is my tool of choice when I am that boostrapped, because a single server with k3s thrown on it will cost me maybe 80 EUR a month and hold all environments plus CI/CD plus various self-hosted business components (with backup sent over to separate provider, just in case), and I'll be free to build my project instead of messing with server setup or worry about cloud bills.