Spin up a 2gb+ DigitalOcean server and toss Dokku on it. Feels like Heroku, very reliable, very simple to understand by just reading the Dokku source. AWS is a

Spin up a 2gb+ DigitalOcean server and toss Dokku on it. Feels like Heroku, very reliable, very simple to understand by just reading the Dokku source. AWS is a great great thing, but has opaque pricing and a lot of nuance to getting everything running smoothly. 99% of projects can survive on a single beefy server for a long time before scaling becomes a concern, at which point that is a good problem to have. Don't make it a bad problem now by making things too complex.