[raphael_kimmig]

There are definitely some things to be considered here, however I find that most people drastically overestimate the amount of work associated with hosting things.

Also they tend to underestimate the amount of work required when using managed solutions. For example, you'll certainly want to do secondary backups and test restores even for managed options.

[strzibny]

100% this. The demo application I built for my book[0] that sets an entire standalone PostgreSQL server can be understood in a few hours.

If your database fits one server, you should consider it.

[0] https://gist.github.com/strzibny/4f38345317a4d0866a35ede5aba...