Big fan of using DigitalOcean droplets instead of AWS for hosting simple backend APIs. A few perks: - Fixed pricing, very predictable billing - No CPU throttl

Big fan of using DigitalOcean droplets instead of AWS for hosting simple backend APIs. A few perks: - Fixed pricing, very predictable billing - No CPU throttling vs. EC2 instances - Bandwidth included in the cost of the droplet I've built a few projects with Netlify hosting a React frontend and DigitalOcean running an API server for the backend/database. A single DO droplet can scale far beyond what I've used it for, especially when combined with a SPA that offloads much of the processing to the users' browser.