Not sure about producthunt, but you should be ready for what people uses to call the "network effect".<p>You cannot control who links and who clicks on the internet.<p>Architectures like AWS, with elastic databases, server instances, load balancers, bandwitch, ELBs and iops, auto scaling groups, etc... elastic horizontally and vertically, pay peer use, free tier available.<p>You can scale manually when needed (pre-scale-up and post-scale-down), or based on ELB visits, CPU/ram/load of instances behind the balancer, etc...<p>Just be sure to don't loose your logs if you need them, when instances are terminated by scaling activities.