I studied computer engineering in school and decided to change my career from an embedded system/firmware path to web development.
When I started down that path, spent a lot of time learning AWS, Azure and GCP (Big Cloud) thinking they were the only way to build web apps and APIs.
They offer so many tools and seemingly infinite scale.
This is a trap. These cloud platforms are difficult to use and expensive.
With @coolifyio and @Hetzner_Online, I spend less time on infrastructure and more time on building my app.
I'm not concerned with how I'll scale my app to infinity.
I'm focused on building something that works.
After that'll shift my efforts towards getting customers.
If my app is successful and my current infrastructure is struggling, I'll spend my time on that, but today that isn't my problem.
Big cloud solves problems most application don't have and never will.
Don't fall for their trap.
Keep it simple, stupid.