I've never used Dotcloud (my go-to is AWS) but I strongly agree with all the other suggestions. You didn't mention a web framework, but I've found Bottle.py [h

I've never used Dotcloud (my go-to is AWS) but I strongly agree with all the other suggestions. You didn't mention a web framework, but I've found Bottle.py [http://bottlepy.org/ http://bottlepy.org/] to be great for putting together projects of all sizes. Set yourself up with Github and write some deployment scripts with Fabric [http://fabfile.org/ http://fabfile.org/] and you're all set.