I'm using Linode for apps and Jekyll + AWS (S3 + Route53 + Cloudfront + SSL certs) for static sites. IMO, if you are making simple single-instance apps, Compute

I'm using Linode for apps and Jekyll + AWS (S3 + Route53 + Cloudfront + SSL certs) for static sites. IMO, if you are making simple single-instance apps, Compute Engine or Google Cloud (even Heroku) can be overkill. On one $10 instance of a Linode VPS I can run a back-end REST API, DB and deliver a front-end SPA