Amen. A properly configured and hardened VPS on a service like Digital Ocean or Linode can run and vertically scale your app well into profitability. It’s reall

Amen. A properly configured and hardened VPS on a service like Digital Ocean or Linode can run and vertically scale your app well into profitability. It’s really not that hard to manage a server with Nginx, Php (or whatever) and Mysql (or whatever). After mastering those basics, any obfuscation layer built for “ease of use” was actually limiting to me. With a few exceptions like Laravel Forge. But that essentially auto-manages a VPS with a Laravel app for you. You still have root access to Ubuntu.