Preliminary note: I use AWS, Heroku, dedicated or baremetal servers, for different purposes. I'd first ask what makes you want to move out of Heroku, especiall

Preliminary note: I use AWS, Heroku, dedicated or baremetal servers, for different purposes. I'd first ask what makes you want to move out of Heroku, especially if you have no sysadmin experience at all. Re OT: you should really check out https://www.engineyard.com/ https://www.engineyard.com/, which provides a layer of services on top of AWS. You can handle a Rails or Node application with little experience and have security updates (Disclaimer: I'm a happy customer, but again I use many different providers so I don't think I'm too biased).