I like this apparent shift back to "small is okay" where not every service has to be an overengineered allegedly hyper-scalable distributed mess of five nines uptime with enterprise logging, alerting and monitoring.
Those things are nice when you have a bazillion users and downtime means hordes of unhappy users and dollars flushing away at insane rates, but for the vast majority of hobby projects and even mid stage startups, what is described in this article is plenty good enough.
I've thought about posting an AskHN about simple infrastructure for some time but I'm not sure how to word it to attract as many responses as possible.
Those things are nice when you have a bazillion users and downtime means hordes of unhappy users and dollars flushing away at insane rates, but for the vast majority of hobby projects and even mid stage startups, what is described in this article is plenty good enough.