> he doesn't want to have the extra burden of manually configuring infrastructure since none of us have any real background in systems administration. It makes

> he doesn't want to have the extra burden of manually configuring infrastructure since none of us have any real background in systems administration. It makes total sense to use the Cloud then, especially if you already have some experience there. > Our use case does not really need instant scaling all that much since we're a B2B business and know ahead of time how much compute we will need. If you had the expertise in the team, going with VMs + dedicated on Hetzner would have been a good idea, though. I started with a dev team of three: One knew Linux admin stuff pretty well, I knew enough to keep the lights on, neither of us had proper cloud or container experience. We've done pretty fine with our Ansible managed Hetzner setup so far. Especially if there are few moving parts (E.g. just HaProxy, a Postgres instance + your API) and your dev laptop has the same OS as your servers, I'd say it can be a lot easier to work with than some cloud provider.