[hackerboos]

I used to be like OP. Trying to save as much money as possible hosting with OVH or Linode and provisioning my own servers.

Then my projects would die because I spent far more time doing this than writing application business logic. The classic "solving scaling problems with zero customers".

Heroku is expensive when you have scaling issues, but until then, it's $7 a month with the free Postgres and Redis options...