Why I Still Choose Boring VPS Hosting Over AWS in 2026 (And How It Lets Me Ship Faster)
I want my hosting to leave me alone long enough to finish the feature. After more than two decades of running web projects, that remains a surprisingly useful architectural requirement.
I still rent servers and put websites on them.
Sometimes it is a VPS. Sometimes it is a dedicated machine. I install Linux, configure Apache or Nginx, run my application as a process, and arrange backups and monitoring. My production websites and services do not require AWS, GCP, or Azure.
This is not a nostalgia project. I like new tools when they remove work. I am less enthusiastic when they rename the work, distribute it across six dashboards, and charge separately for each part.
Over the years, I have noticed a change in the conversations around web development. I hear less about what a business needs and more about which platform components belong in the architecture.
A perfectly ordinary application...
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