Comment by herbst

I am using a semi big cloud VPS to host all my live services. It's 'just' a few thousand users per day over 10+ websites.

The combination of Postgres, Nginx and Passenger & Cloudflare make this a easy experience. The cloud (In this case Vultr) allows on demand scaling, backups and so far I've had zero downtime because of them.

In the past I've run a mixture of cloud and some dedicated servers and since migrating I have less downtime and way less work and no worse load times.