My List: - Stripe [http://stripe.com http://stripe.com] (for Payment Handling) - Heroku [http://heroku.com http://heroku.com] (for Deployment) - Amazon RDS [

My List: - Stripe [http://stripe.com http://stripe.com] (for Payment Handling) - Heroku [http://heroku.com http://heroku.com] (for Deployment) - Amazon RDS [http://aws.amazon.com/rds/ http://aws.amazon.com/rds/] (for DB hosting) - Linode [http://linode.com http://linode.com] (512 is fine) (for Development) - Postmark App* [http://postmarkapp.com http://postmarkapp.com] (for handling mail) - Basecamp [http://basecamp.com http://basecamp.com] (for Project Management) - Chartbeat [http://chartbeat.com http://chartbeat.com] (for Stats) - Sentry [http://getsentry.com http://getsentry.com] (for Exception Handling) - Github Micro [http://github.com http://github.com] (for Versioning & Private Repositories) * Postmark charges for credits, not time. Either way, they do give 49,000 free credits for bootstrapped startups.