I've worked in DevOps for a while and if I could pay $950 to not run and maintain a server then I'd consider it money well spent. There's always 1-2 comments i

I've worked in DevOps for a while and if I could pay $950 to not run and maintain a server then I'd consider it money well spent. There's always 1-2 comments in these threads that advise using a Linode VM or Hetzner dedicated server in order to save money; but they are really skipping over the headaches that come with building and maintaining your own servers. - Are the server provisioning scripts source controlled? - Is there a pipeline if the server needs to be recreated or upgraded? - How is the server secured? - Are the server logs shipped somewhere? Is there monitoring in place to see if that is working? - Does the server support zero-downtime deployments? - Are backups configured? Are they tested? I imagine the answer to a lot of these questions is no and to be fair not all PaaS systems provide all of these features (at least not for free). The server becomes a pet, issues inevitably arise and that $950 starts to look like a false-economy.