Can highly recommend tldr as a companion to man!

Same as any piece of software you’re hosting, it’s up to you to decide. I run my instance on my Hetzner vm.

The question was for an internet facing application, not a homelab.

As someone who has dealt with MariaDB in production, I would certainly look elsewhere. Haven’t had any colleagues who would disagree…

I do -azP for compression

You can always set watchtower to blindly pull for you. If it’s going to be broken anyways, might as well automate the process.