AWS Lightsail

Amazon's simplified VPS hosting. fixed monthly pricing, predictable costs, good enough for most single-server deployments.

role in the deploy chain: Cloudflare → Lightsail → nginx → gunicorn → app, with PostgreSQL for data and systemd keeping everything running.

why Lightsail over EC2: predictable pricing, simpler UI, includes everything you need for a basic deploy. when you don't need auto-scaling or complex networking, Lightsail is less overhead.