Absolutely. There's a tendency for people to get a server and sling everything on it without really thinking about the different aspects of serving a website.

Absolutely. There's a tendency for people to get a server and sling everything on it without really thinking about the different aspects of serving a website. As always, it's all about using the right tool for the job :) Heroku is a good example of this. It's absolutely brilliant for hosting application code because it pretty much eliminates all our sys-admin work, but it sucks at a lot of stuff. Unfortunately many people then complain that it's slow or doesn't scale cost effectively. I've become a huge fan of Cloudinary over the last few months for the same reason, it gives me time to focus on things other than handling image processing. Thanks for those pointer for other options. There are so many toys in our collective toybox that it can be difficult just keeping up with them all :)