So the OP says hosting is expensive and in the same time pays for provisioning service + the hosting service. That's sad. I wrote my `git deploy` server-provis

So the OP says hosting is expensive and in the same time pays for provisioning service + the hosting service. That's sad. I wrote my `git deploy` server-provisioning script with ansible [1] for a weekend. Using DigitalOcean's API you can make a deployable server in your bootstrapping phase ( like running yo [2] ). I'm using this script since an year and so far it saved me 120$, I guess. What I don't have here is support for scaling, but anyway I hope one day I would need to scale my hobby-project to a point that I can see the difference between 1 and 4 VPS. Also keep in mind that PHP is a bit slower than the alternatives these days - NodeJS, Go ... Hmm... [1] https://www.ansible.com/ https://www.ansible.com/ [2] http://yeoman.io/generators/ http://yeoman.io/generators/