Your original post just specified "Web site", so I assumed that you'd be using an Open Source stack - mea culpa. Without writing a long reply - I sympathize wi

Your original post just specified "Web site", so I assumed that you'd be using an Open Source stack - mea culpa. Without writing a long reply - I sympathize with where you are coming from. I spent 5 years as a .NET developer between admin jobs, and the apparently all-encompassing, answer-for-everything nature of the Microsoft stack was attractive. If we could have stayed inside the lines of what Microsoft wanted to provide at the time, it would have been pleasant. One of the advantages of switching to an Open Source platform was being able to access a much wider range of options for things, including hosting. One of these is the full-service Heroku platform - there are Web developers that only deploy to Heroku, and never set up servers.