For a while my projects lived on shared Hostinger plans. It worked until it didn't — noisy-neighbor CPU steal, limited control, and a growing list of things I couldn't run. So I consolidated everything onto a single OVH VPS and never looked back.
The stack
The whole thing is Docker + Traefik v3 + Let's Encrypt. Traefik handles ingress for every service via per-container labels and mints certificates automatically, so adding an app is just a compose file and a hostname.
On one box I now run a multi-app product suite, a full media stack, this blog, a metrics dashboard, push notifications, and the FlameNet services — each isolated in its own container, each routed by host.
Lessons learned
- Plain Traefik beats a heavier stack. I started with extra tunneling layers and ripped them out — vanilla Traefik with Docker labels is simpler to reason about.
- Check CPU steal before blaming your containers. Half my "performance problems" on the old host were the hypervisor, not me.
- Harden early. A public box gets scanned within minutes. CrowdSec, a WAF in detection mode, and an egress firewall are worth the afternoon.
One VPS, one docker compose, everything under version control. It's the most boring — and most reliable — my infrastructure has ever been.