Hosting a web application if you aren't a professional, and want to save money. Seeing as its my entire job, I have no problem getting all kinds of web applica

Hosting a web application if you aren't a professional, and want to save money. Seeing as its my entire job, I have no problem getting all kinds of web applications setup and running on all kinds of platforms. But I was recently trying to help a friend with their web hosting. They were used to the old school style host where you just get a directory you can (S)FTP files into. All the systems administration is taken care of for you. You can setup some SQL databases via a Web UI if necessary. Something like mod_php is already going. It really holds your hand through dealing with other things like DNS. Nowadays those old style kinds of hosts still exist, but there are less of them, and they mostly suck. They charge too much money and impose too many limitations. The problem is that all the amazing options we have today like cloud hosts (AWS, Azure), VPC (Linode, Digital Ocean), PaaS (Heroku), Saas(Wordpress.com, Shopfiy), and hosting your own servers all require more technical expertise and/or more money than that old school style of web host.