I’d much rather pay than deal with all that headache honestly.
And would encourage new comers/learners beginning their journey to do the same. It’s one less thing they need to worry about while they learning, and know you actually going to get assistance from your supplier if and most likely will fuck up something.
The paid alternatives are not bank breaking either.
Some can.be had for as little as $1/month and can be scaled up as ones needs grow.
Haven’t had the need the companies I work with mostly use azure but fact is for the vast majority they all offer variations of the same features.
I tend to really like smaller hosts like say fly.io and other niche hosts over the big 3 (google amazon and microsoft), also always have loved cloudflare for other services
Cool to each their own like I said in 5 years in with 0 issues or outages, worst thing was I had to enable PaYG to avoid the idle issue so for me it’s great
Came from google as I hated the limited ram and bandwidth
definitely cloudflare. will have a look at fly.io. thx.
Keep in mind fly is just one off top of my head cause the names memorable lol
Cloudflare just an awesome company