You willfully mixed up and misrepresented the 2 paragraphs of my post. I hope that wasn&#x27;t with malicious intent, so I will clarify.<p>The first paragraph dealt with the &#x27;poor college student in Eastern Europe&#x27; side of doing a project, where every dollar counts and must be scraped for. In that world, going for .NET was unheard of, but the situation is slowly changing with VSCode and vNext.<p>As for the second paragraph, even well-funded projects have limits. Sure, let&#x27;s say the limit for cost is 50k EUR with 300 EUR&#x2F;month expected hosting costs. How happy will your client be when your cloud provider changes their pricing scheme and hosting cost is now 10-100x as large? Or when the requirements change and you need to buy some $EXPENSIVE_PLUGIN for that and you are locked in with your technology stack to one provider?<p>Mainly speaking: why should someone make a company and build some website and fill applications and all that (always with the high possibility of rejection), when you can just do &#x27;apt-get install &lt;technology-stack&gt;&#x27; or as an alternative, git-clone-configure-make-sudo-make-install for the same thing? It&#x27;s all about barriers to entry.