Hey all, hope everyone is good!

Brief introduction to me: A data engineer with 4 years of experience and 3 years of experience in AWS who is currently employed at one of the big automative company. I did one freelance django project in the past and now I am doing another one for my wife whom is a yoga instructor.

The requirements of the project:

• Subscription based model that people can subscribe and watch her content in the website
• Auth, registering, video streaming, stripe, paypal
• Assuming will be 50 active users in the beginning can increase to 500 in 1 year
• Assuming there will be 30gb of video content in the beginning and it may increase to ~100gb in one year
• 1 developer is developing the project, it is me

Decisions:

• After a pricing research I decided to use digital ocean because it was giving better server with a cheaper cost also the data transfer limits.
• I did not wanted to use a managed pg db because of cost also the db load will be very low due to number of active users, for that reason I decided to up all the system on docker
• I set hourly email backups, the size of the dump is very small ~100kbs, I assume it wont be bigger than 100mb in 1 year
• I set up terraform to provision the server, reserved ip, the starting scripts, all the secrets and envs. Which I can easily recreate the server and restore the latest backup within 10 minutes
• For video streaming and storing, I was thinking of using s3 in the beginning however considering the network cost storing cost the developing cost I decided to use servers ssd disk which is relatively cheap and simple to manage.
• I use allauth for accounts, social accounts for managing social auth

So far those are the decisions, the platform still under development however I would like to hear your feedbacks and questions.

Bests!