Agreed. I have been running dedicated servers for years and stayed well away from Amazon due to price calculations, it's such a huge difference in price. When

Agreed. I have been running dedicated servers for years and stayed well away from Amazon due to price calculations, it's such a huge difference in price. When I worked at start-up the lead dev seemed to be heavily bought into the hype of "cloud" hosting, so he used Engine Yard. The founders got freaked out at the cost for what was negligible traffic. We then moved to Amazon, which equally freaked them out. If you don't have money to burn, then consider going down the standard hosting route.