Everything is run through 2 Digital Ocean droplets (one for the Next.js instance, and one for the Django REST server). I'm not a sysadmin by any means (I just followed a guide[1] online), but it seems to be working well enough.

All in (including the managed database) it's $65 / mo, which seems reasonable to me. (Could be even less, but I scaled up the droplets for this launch).

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...