For what it is worth, I am handling about 130k views and registering ~1k paying users per day with a t2.large instance server running node, redis and nginx behind a free tier Cloudflare proxy, a db.t2.small running postgres 14, plus CloudFront and S3 for hosting static assets.
Everything is recorded in the database and a few pgcron jobs aggregate the data for analytics and reporting purposes every few minutes.
Everything is recorded in the database and a few pgcron jobs aggregate the data for analytics and reporting purposes every few minutes.