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Not as over-engineered as Heroku for small projects, but you still get free LetsEncrypt SSL certs, auto-scaling (for us wishful thinkers), and an integrated/cheap MongoDB (which I haven't messed with). A small side-project runs $7.20/month. I had a good experience with them on a previous Meteor project, so I'm looking forward to using it again.
In a recent similar thread I found out about scaleway, love it. Cheap, good interface and setting up I found that even the image I used was better set up than the digital ocean one(I just used the python to host a django app)
Does Scaleway serve customers outside of the EU?
It's not quite "hip", but a dedicated server on OVH is pretty sweet. Their WHM/cpanel licences are cheap about 25/month. And you can then run MANY websites/projects all under the same umbrella, instead of each time starting over again with a barebone Digital Ocean droplet/Linode, etc. Plus, you got full power. Unless you're running some SaaS project, that really needs to be able to scale rapidly -- this is to me stil…
The problem with classic dedicated servers is hardware... when a disk (or other component) fails it can be a little nightmare.
I've started to use PaaS (Platform as a service) because it's way more convenient and reduces the headache of getting a simple blog up and running. VPSes are often difficult to harden and many of the recipes online for spinning up servers are not tried and tested and often leave gaping security holes in the installation. At least with PaaS these holes are patched because they are widely deployed on many machines and…