>Most people would be better off with a single beefy machine running Linux, Postgres and whatever web app framework they know The problem is back ups. You've

>Most people would be better off with a single beefy machine running Linux, Postgres and whatever web app framework they know The problem is back ups. You've got to figure them out yourself. And there's a decent chance that you do it wrong leading to potentially catastrophic data loss. IMHO, managed DB + S3 equivalent and then doing your own server is the sweet spot. You don't have to worry about data loss and it's still pretty cheap and flexible.