Appwrite Full-Stack MVP Stack
For builders who want backend primitives without stitching together five services. Auth, database, storage, and functions come from Appwrite while the frontend stays in a normal Next.js app.
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I run five side projects on one DigitalOcean Droplet for $24 a month. This stack handles 80k monthly visitors combined and has taught me more about infrastructure than years of managed platforms ever did.
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Database
One Postgres instance serving all five projects with separate databases — regular pg_dump backups to object storage give me a reliable restore path without a managed database bill.
Open tool profileService containers
Redis, Postgres, and background workers run as Docker containers — docker-compose makes the whole server state reproducible if I ever need to move to a new Droplet.
Open tool profileReverse proxy
Routes traffic to each Next.js app by domain name, handles SSL termination with Certbot auto-renewal, and serves static assets directly without hitting Node.
Open tool profileVPS hosting
4 vCPU / 8GB RAM Droplet handles all five projects comfortably. Hourly snapshots give me a full server backup without managing S3 lifecycle policies.
Open tool profileDeployment
SSH deploy action pushes to the Droplet on every push to main — git pull, npm build, pm2 restart. The whole deploy takes 90 seconds and I've never had it fail on me.
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