Can someone chime in why hosting this behind Cloudflare is a bad idea? For something which is a blog/CMS (put another way the # of readers >> # of creators), I'm envisioning using a single instance behind Cloudflare with heavy caching turned on? Cloudflare caches and serves everything. For free (you can pay them if you want). Host your assets in S3 or GCS, also put them behind Cloudflare. If your instance goes down, you have a rough chunk of your caching window to bring your instance back online (which if it's well encapsulated should be a few scripts to spawn a new instance and re-point the cloud provider internal DNS which will update ~1s)