I think that products like this occupy a tricky space. Heroku won't win any contests for price, but we know what they do offer - a simple setup, and you can tru

I think that products like this occupy a tricky space. Heroku won't win any contests for price, but we know what they do offer - a simple setup, and you can trust that they have experts behind the scenes working to keep everything up-to-date and secure. That's one extreme. The other extreme is, I set up my own servers by hand or with a handful of custom scripts. Cheap in price, but time-consuming, and I might miss something. The advantage is that I know how every bit of it works if I need to add a feature or set up something weird. Either extreme makes sense when used for the right purpose, but I feel like it's harder to find a place for things kind of in the middle like this. It has a bunch of nice, handy features, but how much can I trust the maintenance on it? If some sub-item has a security alert, how quickly will it get updated? Will I have to dig into the guts of this thing to fix it? Will that still be true 3 years from now? If I want to do something weird and custom, how hard is that?