Most modern web development courses and tutorial will have you sign up for a cloud hosting provider to build and deploy your first full stack app on. I'm here to tell you that this advice is crap.

Servers are scary. Very scary. But what is a server exactly? Most newbies are not in the know that a server is just a box, running an os, running a program that serves files to other boxes. That's it, all those cloud providers do is 'provide' a very fancy ui, some security, convenience, then charge you $30 a month. That single click deploy convinience of your MERN TODO app is now a Klarna loan for eternity signed in the blood and sweat it took you