Is it practical to host a real production app on a Mac mini?

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I want to try out some personal projects, and although personal projects often don t get much traffic, I d like to make it capable of scaling upto tens of thousands of users. I ve seen free tiers of DB providers like cockroachdb, supabase etc, but they seem to be very limited in storage and usage. Will running my apps on a mac mini (each app would have its own docker image) and opened to the public via cloudflare tunnels be a practical approach?My concern right now is whether the latency would be too high, since I have a residential internet connection (200mbps); and whether I will be able to SSH into my machine if I am not in my hometown (which is like ~50% of the time).When I say apps, I mean wordpress site, some APIs for mobile apps that I vibecoded, a mysql db etc. Even though I don t have much users right now, I want the infra to be capable of handling it upto ~50k daily users.

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