I've been looking at vultr alongside a Linode account for development and small website hosting purposes that need a little more customization and server side c

I've been looking at vultr alongside a Linode account for development and small website hosting purposes that need a little more customization and server side control than something like a Jekyll blog. AWS S3 is fairly reasonable for hosting small, static sites that get almost no hits besides you maybe ahead of almost everyone because most will charge you for the compute and memory of the web server of the site hosting the content while with it's stripped to transfer and static disk storage, which would be pennies per year for sharing a small collection of pictures with a few friends. I have gigabytes of stuff and it costs me less than a dollar per month on S3. Expensive if you look at Google Drive or OneDrive costs sure, but the utility I get out of it is worth a few dollars per year for me. Also, I like the security I can tweak on my bucketa. With the HA design you tend to need running on AWS for serious operations (AZs out the wazoo with every other feature tacking on a few dollars at a time), you might as well use multiple cloud hosting providers and load balance across them. Obviously this isn't typical practice, but Amazon's lock-in is pretty glaring when looking at one of the best potential aspects of cloud being that of PORTABLE workloads.