I don't use containers. I just use systemd / systemctl to run the go apps. I manually update Debian on a schedule I keep. For logs I just ship them to my own app I developed that send messages to a discord server - but I might switch that over to something better one day but it's okay for now. I pay a little extra for Linode backups and have had to use it once, any anything important I backup to S3 and/or locally. I also forgot to say I also use SQLC - so I never have any issues with SQL being wrong or out of sync with the data model.