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What about firewall config? What about installing SSL certs? What about subdomains? What about queue workers? Cron jobs?

The whole point of the article is that those items are completely beyond many devs. Yes, you could learn to do it yourself, but its just so much easier to get started with a service like Forge.

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There are tons of runbooks in DigitalOcean's community, or Webfaction's or whatever else that guide you step by step on how to configure things.

It's a matter of choice, you can spend some extra money and have those things handled for you or you can save it and do it yourself (perhaps just once if you use some config management tool to save your settings).

P.S. It's also worth asking oneself, are these things really required for my small, personal projects? Perhaps they aren't and you can save yourself both time and money.

I don't know, maybe I'm not representative of most developers as I do devops for my side businesses, but I feel like I don't understand a technology well enough until I can handle both the development and the ops side and the ops side often feels like a prerequisite for properly handling the dev side.

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