This looks useful. HostGator will host a web site for $3.96 a month. You can't have any long-running processes. You're limited to CGI, PHP, and static pages. For low-traffic web sites that need some modest amount of host-side processing, that's an effective solution. There's nothing wrong with running a Javascript engine instead of the usual Perl or Python engines under CGI.
If your e-commerce site does one sale a minute, you don't need Docker containers running on AWS instances behind a content delivery network.
If your e-commerce site does one sale a minute, you don't need Docker containers running on AWS instances behind a content delivery network.