If you're looking to start cheap, I'd recommend something like dotcloud[1] or Heroku[2]. Personal bias draws me toward Dotcloud for a variety of reasons, the m

If you're looking to start cheap, I'd recommend something like dotcloud[1] or Heroku[2]. Personal bias draws me toward Dotcloud for a variety of reasons, the main one you should care about is that their pricing model allows you to 'develop' against their infrastructure for free, and you only have to 'turn on billing' when you launch. Even when you launch, your pricing is tied to memory. Meaning if you launch and have 3 users, it'll be cheap to host because you can allocate very little memory, but as your userbase ramps up, you can turn the memory up with it. Scaling is fairly prescriptive as well -- you either add more workers / nodes or more memory (or both). Either way, if you don't need to scale, it's pretty cheap to stay small (less than $10 a month I'd suppose, but that depends on what you're building). The only big negative I can think of as it pertains to you is that their Dotcloud on Windows support may not be great as they self-confess that none of them uses Windows. I also don't, and I haven't tried to use it on Windows, but at least on Linux/OSX, development couldn't be easier. It integrates with Git and is highly scriptable. [1] - http://dotcloud.com/ http://dotcloud.com/ [2] - http://heroku.com/ http://heroku.com/