No question - Don't pay a dime. Use Heroku Garden for free, then you can upgrade to paid if you need to. I have my main app on a Dreamhost shared server, but

No question - Don't pay a dime. Use Heroku Garden for free, then you can upgrade to paid if you need to. I have my main app on a Dreamhost shared server, but I had to move my blog because it kept getting shut down for using too much ram. Heroku is great because you can develop online or off and use git if you want to