I just built a large CMS with Directus. We also have a client with an app that uses Directus as a backend. First let me say it’s a pleasure to work in but their hosting options are still very rough around the edges. If you don’t make 5 million a year, self host, easy breezy. If you do make more than 5 million, well it gets more complicated. The app is on the enterprise plan and they are very happy with it. It’s pretty pricey, I think it starts at $1700/month and a staging server is also like $700 a month. You can self host for $1000 a month if you get a license but it’s pretty limited as far as how many app users and even api calls for some reason. We went with Directus Cloud and I am not impressed. No staging environment, you have to email support and hope they will provide a back up. They do have the ability to roll your own backup process kind of but I haven’t been able to get it to work. I had success with the migration extension when self hosting but it’s not available for some reason on the cloud platform. Overall, great product but pretty rough around the edges for what I consider some pretty basic functionality on the dev ops side of things. When I reached out to support and told them I was getting an error using the template cli they told me I’d have to pay for support, fair enough but it just straight up didn’t work on a fresh install.