This is one of the reasons for programmers making startups to use "platforms as a service" like Google App Engine, Heroku, Rackspace Cloud et al. They really do

This is one of the reasons for programmers making startups to use "platforms as a service" like Google App Engine, Heroku, Rackspace Cloud et al. They really do simplify deployment and managing systems, and let you focus on code, particularly for platforms that traditionally are hard to scale without a lot of knowledge and work.