This takes up so much of my time as a founder... trying to determine where I should be hosting, what technologies (VPS, Serverless, SQL vs NoSQL, Azure vs AWS, etc) I should be using, etc. If I’m paying $20/mo to DigitalOcean would the bill be cheaper at Amazon? Would their extra technologies make me more effective? Does it even matter? Why don’t vendors have a list saying “if you need this, use that” for all their horribly named services that all overlap themselves?
Don’t get me started on email hosting. I don’t even know what’s possible in the email world so I’m 100% sure I’m overpaying but I don’t have the time to figure it out.