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Isn't "best practice" quite literally groupthink? Vast vast majority of web apps run fine on a relatively modest VPS. And almost all will run fine on a beefy d

• 0xbadcafebee 3y ago
  Best practice is the practice that works the best. That isn't groupthink. If it works, it works, regardless of whether a single person or a group is doing it. Groupthink would be whatever the group thinks is best, which isn't necessarily what actually works well at all. The reason why running an app on a VPS is not best practice isn't that the VPS can't handle it; it's not a question of scale. The issue is that there are many different problems with running an app on a VPS, and it is much better to avoid those problems by not using a VPS at all, rather than to spend a lot of time trying to mitigate those problems on the VPS. If there is an alternative that is lower cost than the cost of mitigating the issues on the VPS, then that's the better solution. It turns out that there are solutions like that, among them Heroku/DigitalOcean App Platform, DigitalOcean K8s/AWS EKS/GCloud GKE, Fly.io/AWS Fargate, Google Cloud Run/AWS App Runner, AWS Lambda/Google Cloud Functions, and many more. Almost all of these are better than running your own VPS, because they are designed to remove the problems you will inevitably run into with your own VPS. Some people buy cheap things and replace them frequently. Some people invest in better quality that lasts longer. If you'd rather patch the holes in things rather than simply last longer, a VPS may be the solution you want. But it's certainly not the best solution.