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Infrastructure for a one person SaaS side project?


I am planning to use 2 Digital Ocean droplets:

1. app-01: App

2. worker-01: Web Scrapers / Workers

and their managed PostgreSQL offering.

Stack: Flask /Jinja2 + JavaScript/PostgreSQL / Scrapy

Any thoughts on this?

We use AWS where I work (don't want to end up with a "huge" bill). Will I be better off using a pass offering like Heroku (I will have to learn it)?

  👤 StratusBen Accepted Answer ✓
Seems fine to me! If you want you can probably just run it all on one Droplet to save costs for now.

If you're able, I'd recommend using a DigitalOcean droplet with dedicated vCPUs -- they're a bit more expensive but you'll have normalized CPU performance and won't be choked out by noisy neighbor issues on the general purpose Droplets.

Good luck with your SaaS side project!