How scalable does a simple checklist app need to be? Especially when that checklist app has next to no users?<p>I just don&#x27;t think that managing your own SSL cert and backups are worth $250 a month for a tiny application that no one uses. Logging into your VPS once a month to install updates is beyond trivial. That might not be my strategy if I had hundreds of paying customers, but the author of the article didn&#x27;t have hundreds of paying customers.<p>The moral of the story is that you should choose the right tool for the job. A $250&#x2F;mo. Heroku app for a developer who wants to fiddle around with it for a tiny side project is not a good value as far as I&#x27;m concerned.