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Or choose one dedicated server and just pay ten times less for everything.

Yes that is possible too! We utilse VPS's for some projects and even dedicated servers for a side project I help with.

what's generally the go-to these days for non server-less?

We use vultr. So far all is good. May be a few bucks a month more, but very minor in the grand scheme of things.

Hetzner?