to be honest I think much of this is also solved by thinking of VPS as "docker compose on a VPS" (or whatever container tech you want to use to abstract away th

to be honest I think much of this is also solved by thinking of VPS as "docker compose on a VPS" (or whatever container tech you want to use to abstract away the bare-metal sysadmin stuff). I honestly think with containers there is much less need for stuff like render and heroku, even more so if you use SQLite and remove the hosted database complexity. In fact in many ways it's even better - for instance the ability to run locally with an exact bit-for-bit production environment. Can't really do that with a PaaS.