AWS or dedicated server?
eelco: I should definitely try out AWS.  It's a bit of work, but the docs are good and I think it's a useful experience to at least know a bit about how it actually works.Since you pay for AWS by the hour (and bandwidth), you can more easily switch to a dedicated server from AWS than the other way around.If your application doesn't need to deal with peaks of traffic or potentially scale up fast, going with a (couple of) dedicated servers is probably a more cost effective option.If you do need to deal with peaks or fast scaling, also check out http://scalr.net/