[sabslikesobs]

Great little to-the-point writeup. Thanks! This is helpful for me choosing my own small-scale stack, which I've been having trouble with lately.

One major difference is that I'm currently hosting a bunch of very small apps off the same hetzner box just by myself, and I'm using Docker Compose instead of something like Hatchbox (or another bring-your-own-PaaS like Coolify or Dokploy, which are both less specific than Hatchbox). I'm not running any production-level apps, though; maybe Hatchbox would provide better stability/teamwork?

[hbroadbent]

Honestly, if you've found something that works for you, I'd stick with it.

Once (if) you start scaling one of your apps, that's when I'd loop back to thinking about infra: either yeah considering something semi-managed like Hatchbox, or even fully managed like DO.

(Hatchbox does actually integrate with managed database instances like those from DigitalOcean which is pretty cool imo)