I think you are right. And I started out doing just that with my business. I could easily run the core of the business on a single server. But I have found that

I think you are right. And I started out doing just that with my business. I could easily run the core of the business on a single server. But I have found that what really starts requiring scalability are all the add-ons. Then we needed caching with redis, then elastic stack for logs, then prometheus for monitoring and on and on. Also, OVH doesn't have much presence in the U.S.