A £3.93/mo Nomad‑backed learning lab: Next.js · .NET · Postgres on a budget

A £3.93/mo Nomad‑backed learning lab: Next.js · .NET · Postgres on a budget(craig.banach.dev)

2 points by craigbanach 318 days ago | 3 comments

craigbanach 318 days ago |

I wanted to learn container orchestration without breaking the bank, so I'm standing up a Next.js frontend, a .NET API, and Postgres database on a single €4.55 Hetzner VPS, using Nomad & Traefik for service discovery and load‑balancing.

Would love feedback on improvements, real-world tweaks, or war stories from your own budget infra experiments!

scottydelta 318 days ago | |

I host a lot of apps on hetzner VPSs.

My setup includes docker compose with backend container(Django), postgres, redis for caching and celery worker for background queue. So total 4 containers to run backend.

Frontend is hosted standalone on vercel for free and points to backend Django api.

I then use caddy to reverse proxy and connect domain with the container port. Caddy takes care of ssl certificate through acme on cloudflare.

Lastly I use ufw to secure server and block all ports other than 443(https). I open all ports for my personal vpn server so that I can access the server while connected to my vpn.

craigbanach 318 days ago | | |

That's pretty cool scottydelta.

Are you willing to share what sort of project(s) and users you are able to support with this?

Is this also with the smallest Hetzner VPSs?