I&#x27;m fairly old school (been running Linux since the 90&#x27;s and servers since not long after), Ansible (or something like it) and clean documentation is way cheaper (for me) than something like AWS in the general case.<p>With the big advantage of when something goes sideways I can actually debug the problem, for the scale of most of the systems we run one client per VPS with a backup for some is just fine (though we are transitioning the spares onto a different provider from the primary after Linode took a pasting).<p>Also looking at getting a couple of beefy dedicateds down the line and running Xen for the stuff we really need to not be wiped out.<p>AWS is excellent for a given set of trade-offs but if you have a good Ops background you can save some money which is nice but (for me) more crucially you can access your entire stack and move wherever you want.