Nowadays there's such an abundance of PaaS that in my opinion it doesn't make any sense anymore to get a VPS and manage it yourself, unless you're willing to potentially spending numerous hours in DevOps yourself in both initial setup and maintenance, but more importantly you're aware of the implications when you go past the traffic it can physically serve.

Furthermore, managing your own server potentially leaves more room open for misconfigurations (including backups) and definitely won't get you past any information security questionnaire.