&gt;  <i>it used to be quite annoying to get a server set up, replicate it and scale it, but now with all the awesome automation tools coming out, I doubt that is going to be a problem anymore.</i><p>Curious, what kind of tools are you thinking of? Because the ones I&#x27;d be thinking of as coming out right now kinda fall into the category of PaaS, just that you can self-host them if you want.