> Most apps don't need scaling anyway This is exactly right. I host stuff in buckets/cloudfront and uses a bit of lambda/route53. I end up paying $4 a month.

> Most apps don't need scaling anyway This is exactly right. I host stuff in buckets/cloudfront and uses a bit of lambda/route53. I end up paying $4 a month. now that will be very different if 10 million people suddenly decide to visit my site, but if that happens money probably won't be a problem after all.