The problem is we have free hosting from a friend whose business has so much AWS usage that ours is negligible, however to move up we should move and it is painful to consider doing the move since to get the same level of service that will require
setting up hosting somewhere - AWS, Digital Ocean, bizspark etc. Setting up Nginx Setting up Phusion doing routine maintenance
before we get to the next level stuff we want to do - Redis queuing to handle image conversions in-house (instead of relying on services which I don't think do a good enough job), GraphDB usage, and so on and so forth.
and even under the theory that money is also money, we are bootstrapping pretty hard right now, so even $50 a month is at least a consideration.
Perhaps you could explain why you ask?
I also have to add that hosting costs me about 50€ right now, the same box which also hosts all my other services. My point is that i thought about it and got a rather cheap dedicated box, build up my own "hosting structure" on it, including load balancing and use Cloudflare which helps a lot when you have massive traffic. I could also use AWS for about $200, but when i would just purchase each service individually on AWS it would get very expensive fast.