Absolutely! If at all possible, go managed, preferably with a cloud provider that handles all the hard things for you like load balancing and so on. *Sometimes

Absolutely! If at all possible, go managed, preferably with a cloud provider that handles all the hard things for you like load balancing and so on. *Sometimes* however, you want or need full control, either for compliance or economic reasons, and that's what I set out to explore :)