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Also, AWS came across as "If you fuck up, we'll devour your bank account," though again, my poor memory of the encounter could be exaggerating the experience.

I once lost $300 like an idiot because I forgot to shut down a few c3.large instances that I had booted up.

Ouch! Yeah, that's the type of thing I was worried about. Being new to these things myself, I was super paranoid about messing something up, especially with regard to security.

One of the benefits of Digital Ocean over AWS is that it's simplicity lends itself well to beginners while also not getting in the way of those with experience.

At some point I'll have to learn the 'in's and 'out's of AWS though.