[merb]

well their hosted version is "US East (Ohio)" only and spinning up a own cluster is sometimes overkill. you can start a website with just a managed database and 2 or 3 instances where you install your applications. yes it's cool to have klick to deploy, but everything comes with a cost.

[eeZi]

You don't need either Kubernetes or OpenShift if all you need is 2-3 instances. Just write an Ansible playbook.

That being said, I do run a few 2-3 node OpenShift clusters and the additional complexity was well worth it.