I agree to a certain extend if you're running your own servers. It's not all that complex, and there are tons of programs that give you free licenses (e.g. the

I agree to a certain extend if you're running your own servers. It's not all that complex, and there are tons of programs that give you free licenses (e.g. the BizSpark program StackOverflow used), but it is another thing to think about. If you're talking about the cloud, you should definitely include Windows Azure in the mix, especially Windows Azure Web Sites. You can spin up sites for free and just start paying when you want a custom domain, it runs Node / Python /PHP / ASP.NET (without any changes to cloudify), you get FTP access, etc.). With ASP.NET in Windows Azure Web Sites you don't have any licensing considerations or costs, either.