My Previous Deployment Choices
Since I mostly do web development using Ruby on Rails, these were my go-to options for deployment:
PaaS like Heroku, Render, or Railway
Serverless setups (Cloud Run + NeonDB)
Honestly, I didn’t have any major complaints. PaaS costs a bit more, but in return, you get a clean UI and dead-simple workflows like GitHub integration. If the cost bothered me, I’d just go serverless. For my personal servers—where huge traffic isn't exactly a concern—going serverless meant the app would just sleep when inactive, allowing me to run services for around 50 yen a month. Compared to the headache of clicking through complex AWS or GCP dashboards to piece things together based on architecture diagrams, it was a walk in the park. I was perfectly content. Seriously.
