&gt; ask yourself &quot;If I were a hobbyist building a Bitcoin exchange where would I host it?&quot; then don&#x27;t host there.<p>What&#x27;s the rationale for this? This would seem to rule out inexpensive VPS hosts like DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode, that are good not only for hobbyists, but for small companies on a shoestring budget. Are you saying something like AWS is better simply because it&#x27;s less attractive to hobbyists?