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Any reason to NOT go with DigitalOcean for my Angular/Spring Boot/Mysql web application? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by CS___t@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum

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Planning on launching an app in around a month. Wanting to get familiar with a process that I have zero understanding of currently.

From what I've read, DO will provide a good solid mix of ease of use, scalability, and not being as expensive as AWS/Azure.

It's a CRUD app that will include essentially no media. I would be very pleased if I ever reached 5k daily users.

I just wanted to make a thread for peace of mind before I jump into anything.

Thank you for any advice.

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[–] dazchad@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn’t we all be very pleased with 5k daily users? Lol

You will be fine. Any VPS/cloud will work for the database don’t forget your backups. In fact, this is where you should invest a bit more and have a managed database solution, so you can scale up if needed, unless you are very savvy with db administration

[–] CS___t@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was just reading about the managed databases and it seems like a good option! I think I will go that route. This DevOps stuff seems very unintuitive for a first-timer. Although everything I've done in this field was unintuitive to start lol.

[–] dazchad@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Sometimes it’s better to pay somebody to solve a problem for you. It’s a bit expensive, but your main DB failing is way more expensive. Once you have 5k daily users, hopefully you will have some revenue to make you worry about other problems.

In general, infra costs are the least of your concerns while growing revenue.