I've been running my company website for years on $5 Linode. I used to host everything on there (downloads, update checking, crash reporting, licensing, a Postg

I've been running my company website for years on $5 Linode. I used to host everything on there (downloads, update checking, crash reporting, licensing, a Postgres database for everything). I've never had any performance issues. A $5 VPS is plenty for Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL, for a few thousand users a day. I've started using multiple VPS, one for each service. Not for performance reasons, but for two things: - isolation: if there's a problem with one service (eg. logs used up all disk space) it doesn't bring everything down at once - maintainability: it's easier to upgrade services one by one than all at once