If you want to learn a new technology, a micro EC2 instance is free for a year. You have an entire year to learn basic admin, mess around with Ruby or Python or

If you want to learn a new technology, a micro EC2 instance is free for a year. You have an entire year to learn basic admin, mess around with Ruby or Python or Scala or literally -any- language that exists. Maybe you'll even make something cool and monetize it, or get noticed and land a job at an awesome company. The ubiquity of certain technologies is a non-issue when it is -trivial - to host yourself.