One of the issues that I noticed isn't mentioned is that Cloud servers with Windows are generally more expensive. For example, at Rackspace a 4GB Linux server i

One of the issues that I noticed isn't mentioned is that Cloud servers with Windows are generally more expensive. For example, at Rackspace a 4GB Linux server is $175 / month while a 4GB Windows server is $233. You could use Azure, but then you are truly trapped into the platform. I love .NET, but my startups are all in Ruby / Python.