Understood, @George…thank you for clearing that up for me.
I’ll start with running everything on the same VPS instance as you suggest and only move to an external, managed db if I ever have a good reason to.
I’m a little confused about one thing though. You mention that the web server and database are running on the same VPS Instance/Docker Machine, but when I look at my local Docker stuff in Portainer I see that my server and database seem to be in two different Docker containers…
I’m assuming that even though they live in two different containers, the fact that those two containers live on the same VPS is a speed advantage over having the database hosted outside the VPS. Is that correct?
PS…thanks for the Portainer recommendation. It’s pretty cool as a visual / GUI tool for Docker!