Hosting
Nowadays the clouds are very popular as an easy & fast way to make money for big companies. Customers don't need to play with Linux shell from the start, because good cloud provides heavy lifting - want a database, load balancer or monitoring? No problem, go get all of it in few clicks.
Hosting
When I first got a domain name from a European registrar a few years ago, I was absolutely thrilled with the idea of owning a domain name. After a lot of searching. I finally found a registrar who offered free mailboxes with the domain registration. What happens if you already
FOSS
The whole idea of self-hosting is a cool aspiration and it is more about control over your data. Also, you are unlikely to hit the various pay-for features that you unlock. The more you spend the more you get. I understand that managed hosting is quite a bit more expensive
Backend
This post dedicated for fast start with free tier and "pay as you grow" when time is up, and you prefer to focus on code with heavy PaaS lifting. If you just starting a new project and can spend your time for cloud configuration - welcome to AWS,