> For a _lot_ things, you can almost completely avoid on-call incidents with straightforward redundant (over provisioned) HA architectures, no single points of failure, and sensible office hours only deployment rules (and never _ever_ deploy to Prod on a Friday afternoon).

For a lot of things the lack of complexity inherent in a single VPS server will mean you have better availability than any of those bizarrely complex autoscaling/recovery setups