Very true. I already have a shared host for my crappy little blog, so I was just going to develop this new thing in a restricted subdomain to see if I could ge

Very true. I already have a shared host for my crappy little blog, so I was just going to develop this new thing in a restricted subdomain to see if I could get it to become what I want. I figured could create a minimum viable product there, maybe have a bit of a private beta to figure out if anyone wants to use the damn thing, then shove it on a VPS. That said, I noticed after I made this post that both Slicehost and Linode are month-to-month no commitment type deals, so once the site/app (what qualifies to be called a "webapp" exactly anyway?) is sort of ready, I'll likely just throw $20 at the problem and start on the VPS and see where it goes.