While I wouldn’t use DO et. al. for my production environment (it’s on AWS), I’ve got a handful of ancillary services that don’t need the complexity of AWS. Th

While I wouldn’t use DO et. al. for my production environment (it’s on AWS), I’ve got a handful of ancillary services that don’t need the complexity of AWS. They’re so small and inconsequential to the business that I don’t want to spend any time thinking about the security risk of keeping them anywhere near production. They don’t need access to prod data so why put them in a position where they could potentially allow access to it? So, for me, the easiest thing was to be put them with a completely different company. Don’t have to worry about any potential issues with imitating it on AWS (via additional accounts, different region, etc) which are all prone to human failure over time. Maybe I’ve a bad reason, but it works for me and DO gets ~$50/mo from us and I’ve never considered switching.