slicehost is a wonderful place to stage your app and grow it until you need to break out, imo. i host around 10 apps and sites on a 256 slice. its plenty if y

slicehost is a wonderful place to stage your app and grow it until you need to break out, imo. i host around 10 apps and sites on a 256 slice. its plenty if you're not getting too much traffic and optimize correctly so that you don't see thrashing. if you don't like that, though, you can boot up a server on EC2.