startup

You start your startup with one backend service. Simple, lean, single VPS. Works great. But as your product grows, you add more: a caching layer to speed up reads, a message queue to handle async jobs, maybe a microservice to offload payments or image processing. Suddenly you’re running five services on one box.

When you are launching a startup, the pressure is intense. You need to validate your product idea immediately, which usually means keeping infrastructure lean. There is no budget for massive distributed cloud setups, managed relational databases, or complex Kubernetes clusters. You pick a single reliable virtual machine, choose a fast backend like PocketBase, build your MVP, and push it live.