It's not my startup under discussion, actually (I wasn't the first commenter above), but to be fair the first choice for a tiny startup might well be "stick wit

It's not my startup under discussion, actually (I wasn't the first commenter above), but to be fair the first choice for a tiny startup might well be "stick with the shell scripts and dead-simple architecture for now" rather than any CI at all, hosted or not. Thanks for putting up the more relevant comparison price point, though, and I do agree with you that outsourcing non-core functions is essential to getting real work done on the actual product.