At the time I was not working for Strapi and I was working at a Data center, so in this case it was entirely bare metal servers I was running and managing myself (Combination of XCP-NG for the virtualization, TrueNAS for the SAN/Storage/NFS Shares, and PFSense for the firewall) I have instead moved to a local data center via dedicated unmanaged servers where I live in Phoenix, AZ but am currently in the process of moving back into a colocation space on bare metal. Currently this project lives in a PhoenixNAP datacenter. (Various machines but my primary servers are large AMD Eypc based with a lot of RAM and Storage, since I know a few people who work there I got a massive discount).
As much as I love the cloud, it’s expensive and being a previous Linux systems engineer and Jr. network engineer, I love hardware too much. I do however host various other services scattered around on AWS, DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Linode for more VPS light deployments.
My Personal Blog (that I’m planning to deprovision in favor of another): https://derrickmehaffy.com is ran on DigitalOcean.
My “new” blog is ran on Vultr: https://strapi.guru (along with my personal documentation https://docs.strapi.guru)
AWS is mostly for some of my more complex personal projects that I don’t really want to broadcast to the world.