I lead a team of 3. We use render.com and have a handful of bare metal servers for CPU-intensive background jobs. The bare metal servers are auto-patched Ubuntu

I lead a team of 3. We use render.com and have a handful of bare metal servers for CPU-intensive background jobs. The bare metal servers are auto-patched Ubuntu servers. It’s pretty much 0 maintenance. The server setup is automated via a single provisioning bash script. Render.com is quite nice, if a bit limited in its options vs Heroku. Highly recommended.