[xandrius]

I still think you described using a VPS but with a tons of extra steps, expenses and then being tied to an evil corporation people are trying to move past.

You get a generic VPS and you can do whatever the hell you like, not paying bigG for some "obvious reasons" like outbound traffic.

And a small business will never need 5 nines availability, that's just the propaganda from big tech to over engineer and pay them for that. You can run a small/medium business and be offline for 1 hour every day (makes it 95.8%) and still be fine. It's when you're worldwide and not that small that you want better availability.

Also, you know all those AWS outages? My VPSs were never impacted to the slightest!

[cornholio]

A docker image host is NOT a VPS with extra steps, because a VPS is a server and needs to be administered professionally as a server by someone competent for that job, that excludes 90% of developers who are willing to spend only one hour per year for this task. Think about running mail servers, you can do it manually but to do a good job you need to invest so much time and effort that almost everyone doing it will throw in the towel eventually.

And while I agree with the sentiment of resisting encloudification, you can take your docker image to any other host if you want, it's a generic service. in a pinch, you can build your own and have 100% control just like the VPS case.

The point is that you don't have to, you just git push into production and forget about it. that's a good few dozens less "extra steps" than the VPS route.