[drusepth]

+1 for Heroku for sure.

My SaaS has grown from $50/month costs to over $2k/month costs on Heroku over the last few years and I'm always eyeing AWS and others as a cheaper alternative, but honestly the ease of mind Heroku gives me is more than enough to cover the costs. I've had a few "hugs of death" over the years when posts went viral and scaling up both in quality and number of servers was literally just a few mouse clicks and then I was back online. Other times, when e.g. Postgres fell over from heavy use, their support brought it back online for me free of charge (and quickly), and offered a list of helpful suggestions that I could do to keep it from happening again.

I see paying extra for Heroku like paying extra for a devops guy. If you're comfortable enough in AWS to handle things in the heat of downtime, it's probably worth moving because it's significantly cheaper. If you aren't, then Heroku might be a pretty invaluable resource even when growing into the upper echelons of cost.