I was running one of my products on 7 5$ instances from DigitalOcean. Which includes load balancer (Apache), database with replication, static site hosting, web

I was running one of my products on 7 5$ instances from DigitalOcean. Which includes load balancer (Apache), database with replication, static site hosting, web app and 2 backends. It was happily serving hundreds of concurrent users with quite a lot of space to still grow. With their s3 clone and few volumes we rarely paid more than 45$ per month. You really can get far with cheap cloud machines.