This idea that you need a ton of money to maintain self hosted servers is not true. You may have to update to a new OS or software major version at some point i

This idea that you need a ton of money to maintain self hosted servers is not true. You may have to update to a new OS or software major version at some point in time, but in the meantime things can pretty much auto-security-update for the distribution provided version until you gain traction with your startup.