This would be a problem a couple of years ago, but I think it isn't anymore. Any startup can lease it's own webserver(s) (be it VPS, cloud or dedicated) for pri

This would be a problem a couple of years ago, but I think it isn't anymore. Any startup can lease it's own webserver(s) (be it VPS, cloud or dedicated) for prices that were unimaginable even 5 years ago. And best of all, most providers that are appealing to startups (Rackspace, Amazon EC2, Linode...) offer some kind of pay-what-you-use plans, so you can keep costs low at the beginning.