I live in the United States, and it's kind of shocking to see such privileged responses to what is ultimately a useful starting stack.
Imagine a young engineer in Bogota, or Ukraine if you want to get topical. They may barely have the hardware to accomplish anything compute wise... and your answer is "Use AWS!" Access to the cloud is privilege to the highest degree. You used to need academic credentials to use someone else's computer.
I get the idea of not wasting time, but as somebody who has used self-hosting as nothing but a waste of time that teaches me something, I can't believe so few see the value in a self-hosted starter pack.
Great architecture, OP. I challenge you to simplify the process even more... A lot of manual steps here that should be abstracted with intuitive global configuration, IMO.
Imagine a young engineer in Bogota, or Ukraine if you want to get topical. They may barely have the hardware to accomplish anything compute wise... and your answer is "Use AWS!" Access to the cloud is privilege to the highest degree. You used to need academic credentials to use someone else's computer.
I get the idea of not wasting time, but as somebody who has used self-hosting as nothing but a waste of time that teaches me something, I can't believe so few see the value in a self-hosted starter pack.
Great architecture, OP. I challenge you to simplify the process even more... A lot of manual steps here that should be abstracted with intuitive global configuration, IMO.