Comment by gbuk2013

As someone who runs a such a VPS this is all a non-issue. Running HTTP service is so trivial that once I set it up I don’t even spend an hour in a year maintaining it. Especially with Caddy which takes care of all the certs for you.

And this is also bearing in mind that I complicate my setup a bit by running the different sites in docker containers with Caddy acting as a proxy.

With storage volumes for data and a few Bash scripts the whole server becomes throw-away that can be rebuilt in minutes if I really need to go there.

And for sure any difficulty and ops overhead pales in comparison to having to manage tooling and dependencies for a typical simple JS web-app. :)