I think you should go with Linode first and when you hit the upper limit, you can move to EC2 or dedicated servers. AWS is somewhat expensive and doesn't deliv

I think you should go with Linode first and when you hit the upper limit, you can move to EC2 or dedicated servers. AWS is somewhat expensive and doesn't deliver the same performance as Linode type hosts. The only advantage to EC2 is the insane flexibility it allows (i.e. dynamically spawn new nodes based on traffic) To start off, I'd go with Linode or Rackspace. Keep it simple. Worry about scaling later.