

Networking two machines is easy; networking several with good onboarding and DNS is not as easy.
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Networking two machines is easy; networking several with good onboarding and DNS is not as easy.
Tailscale is a nice way to set up a private network between your machines. It’s perfectly fine.
You can also configure pict-rs to run on object storage so that all your users’ images are stored on S3 rather than your local disk.
I use Porkbun with Gmail and ForwardEmail.net. They do a great job.
Learning K8s is a lot to take on, but it will pay off as your needs expand in the long term — and if you decide to go into infra/ops at work.