> For a personal toy project,

which in reality is any project under a few hundred thousand users

.. who are okay with services going down here and there

Which is the vast majority of services.

	▲	throwaway7783 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Okay. If the premise is "you don't have to worry about downtimes and only need to serve a few hundred thousand users and no data intensive use cases", then I guess you can do whatever and it'll still be okay.