da rulez: - if you don't understand your concept/market, build in a VPS. you can get away with scaling a VPS for a while. - if you intend to be netflix, rent

da rulez: - if you don't understand your concept/market, build in a VPS. you can get away with scaling a VPS for a while. - if you intend to be netflix, rent at the edge (mid game) and eventually own the edge servers in POPs (otherwise, "edge" compute isn't worth it). before that, start with a beefy VPS cluster with HA and SQLproxy. - if you spin to zero, use lambdas (for things like codebuild or fractional needs of a computer). before that, build things in VPSes. - if you spin up/down but not to zero, use container platforms? - once you have a reliably steady understanding of your infrastructure, buy physical servers in a colo