https://erkidhoxholli.gitlab.io/tags/self-hosted/ Recent content in Self-Hosted on Erkid Hoxholli Hugo en Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://erkidhoxholli.gitlab.io/posts/preparing-codebase-for-horizontal-scalability/ Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://erkidhoxholli.gitlab.io/posts/preparing-codebase-for-horizontal-scalability/ <p>Many early-stage startups and solo developers begin with a classic, streamlined stack: a <strong>React SPA frontend</strong>, a single <strong>Node.js REST API</strong>, a single <strong>database instance</strong>, and <strong>Caddy</strong> acting as a reverse proxy and SSL terminator.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>A Note on Cloud vs. On-Premises:</strong><br> If you run on managed hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure), much of horizontal scaling is abstracted away behind managed services: AWS Application Load Balancers (ALB), CloudFront, ElastiCache, and Amazon RDS with built-in connection proxies and read replicas.</p>