I also thought I'd never use it. At some point I realized that Amazon's free tier allows me to execute some minor periodic tasks (like hourly site monitoring, v

I also thought I'd never use it. At some point I realized that Amazon's free tier allows me to execute some minor periodic tasks (like hourly site monitoring, verification that backups have been performed, an easy way to send notifications to myself). This way, the deployment issue of an application and its maintenance kind of goes away. It's also free, meaning I don't have to spend any more money or pack the code in another server.