Yeah it's not like ColdFusion powered web sites enabling billions of dollars in commerce and what with all other web development tools being free of security vulnerabilities and all.
I remember back when I was in the valley, I'd go to a job interview and be pitched by one or more of the interviewers about side projects or equity only opportunities on the side. It happened more than once. That place is or was crazy and I loved that about it! The cost of real estate is high which is why we left but traditional companies elsewhere in America could learn a lot about running like an entrepreneurship in the valley than a staid corporation.
I have run Ubuntu and RedHat on multiple hardware, Desktop, not just server, dozens of machines the past 10 years. Freezing on all those hardware combinations was never a problem. Crashing was absolutely never a problem.
Given that the price calculators for Google Cloud, HP Cloud, Rackspace, etc are online, you can check for yourself. The key one is bandwidth cost for their services.