This is the opening line of the article: How much does running a webapp in production actually cost? Maybe more than you think. So they seem to be trying to

This is the opening line of the article: How much does running a webapp in production actually cost? Maybe more than you think. So they seem to be trying to "educate" people, when they are wrong and basically giving away a lot of money to Amazon and DO. And that's why everyone's chiming in with "lots of unnecessary YAGNI crap you got running there!".