marcusr

Digital Ocean remains very cost effective even if you move up to a $40 a month plan, compared to the AWS m1.small plan - $40 per month vs $47, and you get an SSD based server and 4TB bandwidth included, plus 4GB vs 1.7GB RAM. The smaller Digital Ocean VPSes are great to play around with, but for real work the $40 remain great, even without swap enabled.

There's always a compelling case for that until your line breaks or your power fails. I've seen data centres fail too, but they do have some redundancy for their systems, more than you could reasonably spec for your own premises.