[noop_joe]

Have you considered using a provider that might help eliminate some of the operational burden of running your apps?

At a very high level, when using the big 3 and hosting that's raw infra you're going to find ways to pay for _keeping things running smoothly_. At least the big three have happy paths to avoid some of the operational burden (hidden among many many foot guns).

Full disclosure I work at noop.dev [1], a hosting provider trying to shift the focus of developers from infra-level abstractions to application-level abstractions.

I'm probably biased, but my instinct is that concerns over lock-in are totally valid, but the cost of avoiding is higher than the penalty of embracing.

1. https://noop.dev

[rcbdev]

> the cost of avoiding is higher than the penalty of embracing This is becoming increasingly untrue with the death of ZIRP.

In countries where VC money is much drier, many start-ups begin on VPS' and only move to the cloud when scalability becomes a real issue.

This though, is generally frowned upon by contemporary tech culture.

[edtech_dev]

> many start-ups begin on VPS' and only move to the cloud when scalability becomes a real issue.

This is the idea, yes. But I am hoping we can scale vertically for a long time.