I think the author was only talking about how to make Meteor scale on any hosting service by making it into a raw node.js app, something that more people have experience scaling. The NPM package demeteorizer, which was written by the modulus team, can actually be used to turn any meteor app to a core node.js package, which can then be hosted as you would any other node.js apps and can use any node.js hosting service (nodejitsu, heroku, appfog, modulus.io) or roll your own on bare metal (dedicated/aws).