I’m confused. What I’m saying is that our Galaxy hosting cost is $230/mo. No way would my service run on a single server. I’ve got 2 x 2GB containers ($0.16/hr x 720 hrs = about $230/mo). And no, running an app on AWS API Gateway + Lambda is not considered self-managed hosting. Nor is using RDS. These are all managed services.
@alawi I agree, this has become an outdated (and kind of silly) thread. Meteor has changed a lot since the thread started. Honestly I can’t really judge the platform as it stands today. I think it’s a perfectly valid solution, and really it just depends on one’s needs as far as what stack is appropriate.