One VPS, Ten Projects: Docker + Traefik + Cloudflare for Indie Hackers

If you are running multiple side projects and paying for separate hosting on each one, stop. A single $10/month VPS can host all of them with automatic HTTPS, zero-downtime deploys, and a reverse proxy that routes traffic by domain name. Here is the exact stack I use. The Problem Every indie hacker hits this wall. You have a Next.js blog on Vercel, an API on Railway, a workflow tool on some other platform, and a static site on Netlify. Each one is cheap individually, but the costs add up. Worse, you are scattered across five dashboards with five different deploy workflows. I consolidated everything onto one Hostinger VPS. One machine. One docker-compose.yml . Ten services. The Stack Traefik sits at the front as a reverse proxy. It listens on ports 80 and 443, terminates TLS with automatic Let us Encrypt certificates, and routes requests to the right container based on the domain name. No nginx config files. No manual cert renewals. Docker Compose defines every service. Each project get