Completely agree. I also recently did a medium-sized project with Mono (website) because I thought that it will be cheaper since service such as digital-ocean i

Completely agree. I also recently did a medium-sized project with Mono (website) because I thought that it will be cheaper since service such as digital-ocean is very cheap. Turns out it would be cheaper to just host on Windows Azure because the work of fixing/tweaking things just so it will run properly took way more time (money) than was planned.