Durable notes
Selecting and Deploying on a Lightweight VPS
A record of lightweight VPS selection, static-site deployment, and domain routing decisions centered on cost and maintainability.
Published
Separate usefulness from complexity
The core of this historical exercise was separating usefulness from complexity. On a resource-constrained host, static-site generation behind an Nginx reverse proxy made resource use easier to bound and operational actions easier to predict.
Instead of completing a heavyweight redesign all at once, the lightweight site made it possible to establish the domain, DNS, caching, logs, release, and rollback path before migrating real content in stages. The choice was not about maximizing technology coverage; it was about keeping the boundary manageable for one maintainer.
Current publication boundary
This article records the legacy VPS approach. Managed hosting is the approved target, and migration is still in progress. Until cutover is verified, this note makes no claim about what currently serves production.