What I run & deploy

Hetzner Cloud VPS

Primary production host

Ubuntu / Docker / Nginx reverse proxy + TLS

DigitalOcean Droplet

Staging & Telegram bot hosting

Ubuntu / Docker Compose stacks

Dev Workstation

Daily development machine

Linux / Python 3.13 / Docker / VS Code

Primary database for every API and bot. Schema managed with Alembic migrations and backed up on a daily schedule.

Cache and Celery broker - powers background jobs, response caching, and per-user rate limiting across the bots.

Reverse proxy with TLS termination via Let's Encrypt. Routes each subdomain to the right Docker container.

Several aiogram 3 bots running 24/7 in Docker - media downloaders, anonymous chat, and utility bots.

Health checks on every deployed service with instant Telegram alerts when something goes down.

Builds, tests, and deploys to the VPS on every push to main - zero-downtime container swaps.

OpenAI-powered chatbot service. Currently in active development and running on staging.