I like the idea of a "Progressively Enhanced Monolith". Start by building the core of the application in something like Laravel that can do anything and be developed quickly, then stick it behind a proxy/CDN like Cloudflare. Then if you find endpoints or pages that are accessed frequently and would be better as their own microservice then use a small serverless worker to either respond directly from the edge or forward the request onto a microservice.
I'm jumping on the conversation , actually my portfolio website is on cloudflare pages with astrojs , it costs me nothing to host it , has a quick way to develop . I higly recomend it
