If it doesn't make sense for you, then you're not a startup. That sounds ipso facto, like I'm saying "PaaS is the best option for startups, because if it didn'

If it doesn't make sense for you, then you're not a startup. That sounds ipso facto, like I'm saying "PaaS is the best option for startups, because if it didn't make sense you're not a startup." but I mean it legitimately. Startups are VERY DIFFERENT from normal businesses, in almost every conceivable way. Great startup engineers do not necessarily make great "normal business" engineers. Great startup infrastructure looks nothing like great normal infrastructure. The same solutions do not work for both. Startups, generally, have "large" amounts of money and "small" amounts of humans. So when you say "based on my specific metrics (money) PaaS doesn't make sense"... uh, yeah, duh. You're not a startup. Being a small business does not make you a startup. Writing code does not make you a startup. Startups burn money like hell in the pursuit of a 100x product-market fit. "Burn Rate" is thrown around a lot as a metric. Do you think the term "burn" was chosen by accident? Startups don't "invest" money. They don't spend it. They BURN it, with the hope that the kindling will explode and they can worry about the damage they caused later.