Gregory's Server
@collinsworth My favourite philosophy for these tech stack choice questions is "Choose Boring Technology" https://boringtechnology.club/ Similar to what you're saying, but it's not exactly about targeting the "cheap-ass VPS somewhere". If you want room to grow that may be a mistake (yes, maybe you have some cringeworthy optimism about having 1000 times the number of users some time soon) but then again the well-established well-used boring technologies are usually good at scaling down as well as up.
@harry_wood @collinsworth
Definitely. I used some of the hot new cloud-native projects in the OpenID connect / identity aware proxy / identity management space.
Some had glaringly obvious security bugs that remained undetected for months, only partial support for the required standards and a crappy documentation.
In the end it turned out apache with mod_openidc and keycloak were the boring but ultimately best (by far) solutions to the problem.