It's been an interesting experience this week moving my blog to a Digital Ocean droplet using this guide.
Some lessons I've learnt:
- A low cost droplet is a slow computer, you actually need to consider what packages you're using and if it'll slow things down, I had some problems with RSS parsing and realised this was slowing my whole app down
- Rely on the SQLite database, for rendering HTML don't do anything too crazy apart from some good database queries
- Use Cloudflare to ensure site is secure, it was simple and free to setup, definitely something I'd recommend