A set of scripts maintained to make it easier to bring projects online.
aspnet-- deployment scripts for an ASP.Net Core website running under Alpine, behind an nginx reverse-proxy. Complete with LetsEncrypt support out of box. Assumes the application is backed with PostgreSQL.ops-- daily operations scripts, currently contains an automated database backup. Backups are offshored to an Azure blob container for safekeeping.
Alpine is cost-effective. Applications built with .NET Core seem to like a few hundred megabytes to themselves, and don't leave much breathing room on a basic 512MB VPS. The standard Ubuntu images offered by most VPS hosts come with some cruft already installed, and a fresh Alpine install comes with near nothing.
Deploying an app with a Dockerfile is definitely easier, but this comes with the assumption that I have a stable target to deploy to. For contract projects, the end deployment is running under some other organization's resources with their own billing. In this case, it is more preferable to spin up a cheap VPS for the duration of the project, deploy my app, and transfer ownership away; as opposed to renting a server capable of running a heavier workload (multiple Docker/Kubes instances) and maintaining that server for the total duration of all the projects I have ever developed.
Services like https://fly.io/ are certainly an easier option, but have yet to prove longevity or billing stability. For personal/hobby projects I would be more likely to use this, but for a project that needs several years of uptime, I still feel that it is more reliable to let the project remain isolated to its own VPS.
My deployment script is modeled heavily after Drew Devault's new server checklist, including the direct usage with modification of some configuration files (acme, nginx) which is used fairly and attributed under CC-BY-SA.