Hacker News Reader

For heroku and other PaaS's, there's no need to manage a server. Don't need to set it up, don't need to maintain it, keep software up to date, etc.

Publishing to Heroku is as simple as 'git push'. Scaling is super easy too. Need a second instance of your webserver? 'heroku ps:scale web=2' is all you need to do.

Re: Heroku, free > not-free 4GB is unnecessary for small apps that aren't doing alot. Managing a VPS takes non-zero time, heroku takes as close to zero time as required. Your use case sounds different though, hence you're probably not missing anything.

Kool-aid

where?

I personally use UGVPS and ChicagoVPS. You can find a bunch of offers on lowendbox and webhostingtalk