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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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Python backend for teams that want admin panel, ORM, migrations, and auth out of the box. Django's batteries-included approach means you're shipping product instead of assembling a framework from twelve separate packages.
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Primary database
Django's ORM supports PostgreSQL-specific fields like JSONField, ArrayField, and full-text search — squeeze more from the database without leaving Python.
Open tool profileCache and task queue
Acts as both the Celery message broker for background tasks and the Django cache backend — offload email sending, report generation, and webhooks from the request cycle.
Open tool profileDeployment containers
Pin the exact Python version and package versions in a container — consistent builds across developer machines, CI pipelines, and production servers.
Open tool profileCloud hosting
ECS for containerized Django apps or EC2 for straightforward deployments — AWS gives you the infrastructure headroom to scale when traffic grows without re-platforming.
Open tool profileError monitoring
Full Python tracebacks with Django request context — catches unhandled exceptions, slow database queries, and Celery task failures with links back to source code.
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