Budget Self-Hosted Stack
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.
Public stack
Laravel is still one of the fastest ways to ship a serious B2B product. This stack handles database work, subscriptions, email, deployment, and production visibility without feeling overengineered.
Workflow stack
Relational data
Relational data, transactions, and reporting queries stay dependable as the product adds customers and billing states.
Open tool profilePayments
Subscriptions, invoices, and payment recovery are handled by infrastructure built for real money flows.
Open tool profileTransactional email
Transactional email stays simple for receipts, invites, and lifecycle messages without wrestling with older email APIs.
Open tool profileApp hosting
Managed web services and workers are straightforward to operate, which suits a pragmatic Laravel team.
Open tool profileProduction visibility
Production exceptions and slow requests surface quickly before they become customer support threads.
Open tool profileDeveloper-first transactional email API with React Email, webhooks, multi-region sending, and plans from free daily caps to Pro at $20/month for 50,000 emails with optional pay-as-you-go overages.
Unified PaaS: web services, static sites, background workers, cron, managed Postgres and Redis-compatible Key Value—workspace plans plus per-second compute for services and databases.
Error monitoring, performance tracing, logs, session replay, profiling, and uptime products for developers—SDKs across major languages and frameworks with issue workflow at the center.
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