For productive sites / services I use a VPS (Vultr) mostly because backups and rollbacks are completely painless which is awesome when you manage everything you

For productive sites / services I use a VPS (Vultr) mostly because backups and rollbacks are completely painless which is awesome when you manage everything yourself. Instead of container I just use phusion passenger. Kiss. I also have 2 dedicated one from a small reseller, one from Kimsufi. They run heavy services like monitoring and additional backups essentially everything where I don't care about 100% uptime. All public downtimes I've had in the last 4 years or so we're 100% my fault. Edit:// Its less than $100 for several million page views and some heavy monitoring.