There are cheap virtual machines that are good enough for most. In my book Deployment from Scratch I make a case that just a little bit of Bash gets you pretty

There are cheap virtual machines that are good enough for most. In my book Deployment from Scratch I make a case that just a little bit of Bash gets you pretty far. There is also nothing wrong with Dokku (we used it at one startup) or Capistrano (I didn't really use it but I think it's fine!) and other simple tools for simple deployments.