Finally wrote up how I did it and what I learned about the different ways of doing it.

https://blog.garble.org/diy-analytics-digital-ocean-countly/

Countly needs more Advertising or evangelism. I only recently heard of it on HN. It may have been easier if they had monthly plans rather than going straight to enterprise.

Fathom has a one-click on DO now too, for $5/mo. Although if countly is working for ya, I wouldn't switch either.

Likewise. Using Countly on a DO instance.