Based on the fact that your ideal is to have a similar experience to heroku than managing your own server setting up reverse proxies take a look at these option

Based on the fact that your ideal is to have a similar experience to heroku than managing your own server setting up reverse proxies take a look at these options: 1) https://dokku.com https://dokku.com - lets you turn your light sail instance basically into heroku 2) https://render.com https://render.com 3) https://fly.io https://fly.io 4) If you have aws credits this is their heroku equivalent: https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk above is not what I do but would be the options I would pursue if I understand your preference and requirement correctly.