I wish I could upvote this 10x. I have no idea what .NET means today other than the little insight I get when listening to the Stack Overflow podcast (which isn

I wish I could upvote this 10x. I have no idea what .NET means today other than the little insight I get when listening to the Stack Overflow podcast (which isn't much). Not only do I not know what .NET means, I wouldn't know where to start learning or what the requirements are ... Where is the .NET equivalent of these types of resources? (I really want to know): http://articles.slicehost.com/2009/1/6/ubuntu-intrepid-ruby-on-rails http://articles.slicehost.com/2009/1/6/ubuntu-intrepid-ruby-... http://articles.slicehost.com/2009/9/3/ubuntu-hardy-using-mod_wsgi-to-serve-your-application http://articles.slicehost.com/2009/9/3/ubuntu-hardy-using-mo... http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts http://railscasts.com/ http://railscasts.com/ http://blog.disqus.net/2007/03/11/a-django-primer/ http://blog.disqus.net/2007/03/11/a-django-primer/ Furthermore: - Can I spin up a $20/month .NET-compatible VPS? - Can I easily tie my .NET apps into cloud services like S3 (I can tie S3 file attachment into my Rails models in minutes)? I don't ask these questions to be flippant–I honestly don't know the answer because I never bothered to search it out.