Excellent suggestions. The awesomeness of App Engine should not be under estimated. It makes running a web app extremely easy and painless (and free, at first).

Excellent suggestions. The awesomeness of App Engine should not be under estimated. It makes running a web app extremely easy and painless (and free, at first). It has some gaps though depending on what you're going to use it for. For example, its sending/receiving to/from custom domains is quite limited. To fix that I've used: -To send emails from a custom domain: SendGrid.com -To receive emails sent to a custom domain: CloudMailin.net For buying domain names, I've switched from GoDaddy to name.com, just to get away from the awfulness that is GoDaddy's UI.