Think about it this way: You're a small, three person group. Are you more worried about having a modest colocated server or a small VPS run out of resources be

Think about it this way: You're a small, three person group. Are you more worried about having a modest colocated server or a small VPS run out of resources because you suddenly became really, really popular, or are you more worried about who'll go without salary for a few weeks because you misconfigured something and got a bill for multiple thousands of dollars? Amazon takes full advantage of the fact that you can get in to deep billing waters very quickly. They can't collect your billing info quickly enough? Bull - and I mean this emphatically - shit. If a company that runs some of the largest datacenters in the world can't communicate metadata in real time, they're either hopelessly inept, or they're failing on purpose to make more $.