I've tinkered a little with http://heroku.com/ http://heroku.com/ and if Ruby is your thing it really is awesome, especially the setup and maintenance parts. T

I've tinkered a little with http://heroku.com/ http://heroku.com/ and if Ruby is your thing it really is awesome, especially the setup and maintenance parts. The first few chapters of the tutorial at http://www.railstutorial.org/ http://www.railstutorial.org/ are worth reading if you're not familiar. My current project is on a Rackspace VM because I want more control to do unconventional things. It does need to reach a certain scale before is starts paying off though.