I updated my post. I meant with "deploy as VPS" "deploy as a (virtual private) server with a service like render, heroku".

I agree the sys admin stuff, no thanks. the appeal of "serverless edge", at least to me, is ease of deployment. but, that ease of deployment is tooling / git integration rather than the underlying architecture.

the benefit of "your functions are globally distributed" has yet to appeal to me. for large ecommerce maybe. but then again, just deploy your servers in a distributed fashion which is "easy" if no state persistent is involved and tooling like fly.io is emerging.