+1 to the VPS for small (early) web apps. These VMs can handle more than one normally assumes. Especially if the load does not come in bursts. Running my app (

+1 to the VPS for small (early) web apps. These VMs can handle more than one normally assumes. Especially if the load does not come in bursts. Running my app (https://addresspush.com https://addresspush.com) now since 9 months and the smallest slice with Apache and 2 balanced nodes works perfectly. 1 unnoticed down-time for a few hours. I bet that happens with cloud services as well (hi AWS!).