“He basically convinced me that paying for Heroku was like setting money on fire. He was a lovely guy, and I really appreciated his help at the time, but 10 years later I can honestly say this was awful advice (the buck stops with me for listening to it).”
Tanda left Heroku a year in to save about $2 a day on a $40 Digital Ocean bill. It then lost every server at once because the card on file expired and the billing alerts went to an inbox nobody read. On AWS, the account manager’s solutions architect answered every question with Lambda. Ten years of platform hopping bought what a managed host offered on day one.