> Startups do, and always should, focus on getting to market faster so they can get feedback from real customers. Absolutely. But are you telling me that a $5

> Startups do, and always should, focus on getting to market faster so they can get feedback from real customers. Absolutely. But are you telling me that a $5 p/m LAMP stack from a basic web hosting company (I'm a Microsoft dev so not sure what the FoM in Linux-land is) isn't worth it as a first step? That you have to use a bunch of bells and whistles from AWS or Azure or something? And, if you're in the MS camp, surely a $10 p/m IIS/SQL hosted option is much easier than anything the big three have... I'm not seeing the value proposition of cloud here...