I've recently gone the other way. I was self-hosting everything on a DigitalOcean VPS, but keeping the OS maintained, and indeed the headaches of configuring Nginx, letsencrypt, postgres and so on became more annoying not less each time I wanted to make a new app, because every app was a bit different.
I'm now running my primary project on Fly.io and I'm pretty happy with it overall.
"No matter how small is the service, no matter how rarely you need it, you’d need to pay the full price."
On Fly.io I'm running an app server, a db server, and another app server with a 1GB volume for a Discord bot. Everything fits in the free plan.
The thing about PaaS is you really have to do your research. It's not like VPS providers where all you really need to look at is how much compute and storage you get for a monthly price. PaaS have a lot more subtleties and yes, it happens that the startups behind them sometimes blow up or get bought out by huge public enterprise companies. VPS providers tend to be lower risk.
The tradeoff is worth it for me, but it really depends on your skillset, your priorities and so on. I can maintain a VPS, but I have very limited time, so I want to focus every spare hour I have on developing my product.
I'm now running my primary project on Fly.io and I'm pretty happy with it overall.
"No matter how small is the service, no matter how rarely you need it, you’d need to pay the full price."
On Fly.io I'm running an app server, a db server, and another app server with a 1GB volume for a Discord bot. Everything fits in the free plan.
The thing about PaaS is you really have to do your research. It's not like VPS providers where all you really need to look at is how much compute and storage you get for a monthly price. PaaS have a lot more subtleties and yes, it happens that the startups behind them sometimes blow up or get bought out by huge public enterprise companies. VPS providers tend to be lower risk.
The tradeoff is worth it for me, but it really depends on your skillset, your priorities and so on. I can maintain a VPS, but I have very limited time, so I want to focus every spare hour I have on developing my product.