Exactly. If one has to self-host actually, it's best to deal with the direct infrastructure (IAAS) layers and get its efficiency instead of going through additi

Exactly. If one has to self-host actually, it's best to deal with the direct infrastructure (IAAS) layers and get its efficiency instead of going through additional layer overhead. I don't know much about NodeJS/React world but to compare with PHP, this is the equivalent of self-hosting an open source CPanel instead of creating a LAMP setup on VPS and working with Linux and PHP directly?