It&#x27;s not about difficulty, it&#x27;s about time and money.<p>I _can_ manage a server. But for $25&#x2F;month to just forget about it? I&#x27;ll take that tradeoff any time. (And have, back when I had production machines myself. And will, if I have time for that side project again sometime soon...)<p>And for stuff that needs more than one dyno, well, if we assume $100k&#x2F;year for an ops person, that still gives you sixteen of Heroku&#x27;s beefiest instances for the same price? I still think it makes sense.