I should definitely try out AWS. It's a bit of work, but the docs are good and I think it's a useful experience to at least know a bit about how it actually wo

I should definitely try out AWS. It's a bit of work, but the docs are good and I think it's a useful experience to at least know a bit about how it actually works. Since you pay for AWS by the hour (and bandwidth), you can more easily switch to a dedicated server from AWS than the other way around. If your application doesn't need to deal with peaks of traffic or potentially scale up fast, going with a (couple of) dedicated servers is probably a more cost effective option. If you do need to deal with peaks or fast scaling, also check out http://scalr.net/ http://scalr.net/