[nsporillo]

Yeah this is probably true, I've never actually had a nginx instance be overwhelmed myself. I just don't know how much I trust VPS providers that aren't charging a premium $5+/month to deliver quality reliable performance.

The best part of S3 + Route53 is your costs are basically constant. $.50 a month for the hosted zone and then you pay pennies on the dollar for GBs of data transfer. In theory your bill could balloon if you had a hefty static website or some big files left public in your buckets and someone constantly downloaded it.