On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Bob Meetin <bobm at dottedi.biz> wrote: > But anyway, my customer listens and hears about Amazon hosting. In that they > have a CDN and are enormous, does anyone here have a reference point on what > they can deliver (at reasonable costs) for a startup? See: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#pricing But Renoir is right about the primary appeal of "cloud-scale" being able to programmatically deploy/undeploy extra instances to handle changing load conditions. Which means your app needs to be written to handle that. I suspect your specific example here is not a good candidate :-) FWIW, -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder at gmail.com http://about.me/hassanschroeder twitter: @hassan