Ofcourse there's more to hosting. But that's what the hosting company does! The webhosting landscape - at least here in Europe - is perfect: worldclass technology, local service. I can be on the phone with these companies if there's a problem.

> There's more to hosting than just spinning up a fleet of containers you know (not even that that is necessarily trivial...).

Spinning up containers is like the bare minimum I'd expect from an ops engineer, I wouldn't call it "trivial" but it's the job.

> Also, how would you be generating revenue from these users?

That's a business question, not an engineering one, if the businesses doesn't have a plan for revenue then hosting costs are irrelevant.