Exactly - the whole point of a cloud provider is scalability. If you're doing a personal hobby project, get off big scalable clouds and get yourself one (or multiple!) fixed-price VPS or dedicated servers.
But as I think of it, I think what people really want, for hobby projects, is not so much the scalability, but the managed offerings. They want zero-ops, zero-maintenance, zero-server-updates hosting, with a fixed price and hard limits. It won't be infinitely scalable, but it doesn't need to be - it's a hobby project.
They just don't wanna sysadmin a server of their own. Which is completely understandable.
There's room in the market for something like this.
An important part of hobby projects is the scaling to zero part too. I wager a lot of hobby projects use cloud simply because it's free or almost free (e.g. 2 cents a month), which isn't the case if you rent a VPS.
We tried this. I was tasked with automating popular software installs into fresh VMs. I think some of my scripts for doing so are on my github - wordpress and some dashboard software, at least.
offerings were published on the main page and afaik no takers. We migrated off whatever hypervisor we were using onto wok/kimchi and finally to proxmox, so my scripts still work, but proxmox has turnkey linux "quickstart" servers now as well as lxd, so there's less reason to use my scripts.
