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Also, you don't need to worry about server security or server setup outside of the code you're running. With a typical VPS, you'd have to install software updat

Also, you don't need to worry about server security or server setup outside of the code you're running. With a typical VPS, you'd have to install software updates yourself and have a plan for how to set up a server from scratch again if needed (nontrivial if you do a lot of setup manually over SSH). Essentially, a good way to set something up that requires minimal maintenance.

icebraining 8y ago
They were talking about Webhosting, not VPSs. With webhosting, the hosting company usually manages the software, you just dump your code (or cgi-bin binary) into a directory. For example https://www.hostgator.com/web-hosting https://www.hostgator.com/web-hosting