How We Built a Gaming Portal with 8,000+ Games...

We recently relaunched Sonsaur.com, a free browser gaming portal with over 8,000 games. Here's the tech stack and interesting challenges we solved. The Stack Framework: Next.js 16 with App Router Database: Neon PostgreSQL with Prisma 7 ORM Hosting: DigitalOcean VPS + Cloudflare CDN Image CDN: Custom nginx-based CDN (img.sonsaur.com) serving pre-resized AVIF thumbnails Search: PostgreSQL trigram indexes (pg_trgm) for fuzzy game search AI Translation: Gemini API with 60-key rotation for rate limit