Dearest HN Network,<p>Assuming a budget of about $100/month, what are the best cloud hosting solutions available? What should one be aware of in choosing a cloud based hosting solution?<p>Please discuss.
It has been discussed here. Numerous times. Use google or the HNSearch link, below.<p>The unanimous result of the discussion, in case you're curious and don't want to look it up, was that everyone doing any kind of startup anywhere should click on the affiliate link in this article;-)<p><a href="http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode" rel="nofollow">http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode</a>
This is a very broad question. Heroku has dead simple deployment for Ruby applications; see the pricing page to play with options. Also it's free for very low usage applications, but scales up easily. VPS offering from Amazon, Linode, Rackspace, Slicehost, etc have a minimum threshold around $25-ish.