FWIW: This is exactly why places like Heroku are in business. They handle these sorts of details for people who aren't comfortable or able to do it for themselv

FWIW: This is exactly why places like Heroku are in business. They handle these sorts of details for people who aren't comfortable or able to do it for themselves. Remember that PaaS != IaaS. Also, Redhat's openshift isn't too bad and you can get the code running on your own hardware, so ++.