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I run a solo SaaS product with 15,000+ users. I use the "arcane/wizardry" techniques still.

I simply run "make deploy" and a new production build is made and rsync'd to production. Then the script executes a "deploy.sh" on the production server which reloads the system process to pick up the new binary.

Poof.

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And if your singular production server catches on fire?

Has been five years and never happened. I don't optimize for problems I don't have.

I do daily backups and have the ability to deploy a "new" server if need be. It's a little bit of manual work but would be trivial.

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