I do the same, I feel like a simple VPS is a lot easier to manage and less prone to failures than a "cloud" provider. Normally the push-back is "what if it fails, what if you need to scale, etc.", but so far no VPS failed on me (even if it did, you can just use backups and restore with a bit of downtime) and the scaling part can be solved through a good horizontal-scaling server architecture, instead of relying on the cloud to automatically do that for you (which anyway still requires your architecture to support horizontal scaling).