When you're uninformed and don't know what you're facing, things seem complicated and cloud solutions tend to look very attractive but what is so hard about run

When you're uninformed and don't know what you're facing, things seem complicated and cloud solutions tend to look very attractive but what is so hard about running a web app? For sake, just spin up a single server somewhere cheaper and run it all in there and vertically scale up after you've put the appropriate monitoring to know when you need to scale up. And put your money where it's worth it.