From Zero to Live: How I Deploy 5 Apps on a Single $5 VPS Yes, you read that right. Five separate applications running on one cheap server. Here's my exact setup. Why One Server? When I started building side projects, I made the mistake every beginner makes: One Heroku app per project = $7-14/month each After 4 projects, I was paying $56/month for apps that had zero users. That's when I discovered the magic of a single VPS: $5/month total (not per app) Full control over everything Skills you'll use forever (Linux, Nginx, systemd) Unlimited apps (within resource limits) Here's how I run 5 applications on one server. The Hardware I'm using a Tencent Cloud Lighthouse instance (similar to DigitalOcean Droplet): CPU: 2 cores RAM: 4GB Disk: 60GB SSD Bandwidth: 1TB/month Cost: ~$5/month Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Any provider works: DigitalOcean, Linode, Hetzner, Vultr — pick whatever has a data center close to your users.…