What deployment strategy would be most like a PHP deploy to managed hosting ("one click install" and the like)?

I have a project I've thought about doing for a long time. It would be open source, and consist of a single node app. The products it competes against are PHP apps where one of the "selling points" is that there are managed hosting offerings that take care of OS upgrades and the like, and even end users can use the host's GUI installer to upload a file archive where everything is then automagically handled except the end user setting up email and DNS.There's no other services involved, because the base product is really an on-ramp for a basic low volume site. If they're bigger they'll have the money to (for example) pay for setup with a proxy, etc. I think I need to have an entry-level product offering though that competes directly with what's available in PHP-world. There's competitive products in Ruby and .NET, but they've stayed very small, failed to build communities, and the like because they have a fairly high barrier of entry for the target group of users who normally get going with something simple and grow.What I'm considering is a deployment offering as an ISO for a cloud provider, like Digital Ocean. There would be other deployment options if a user has technical proficiency. Am I thinking about this right, or does anyone have suggestions for a better approach?

Submitted February 01, 2020 at 08:55PM by calligraphic-io