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Looking at things like Snowpocalypse, ThreeWordsMe and the kid who just did the three words "clone" 5factsabout.me; as a noobie who wants to dip their toes in the webapp space, I'm wondering where people host these smaller projects.

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Well as you describe yourself as a noob I'll say this. Take a good look at Google App Engine before committing to it. Maybe read this too http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~silver/gae.html . I'm sure it works for some people but I wouldn't want to find my product taking off and then having to port off GAE to deal with it.

Rackspace Cloud has a $10/month 256MB instance (though traffic is extra). Amazon EC2 micro instance is free for one year (traffic is extra). VPSLink is a little pricier but works well. Linode is pricier still but (2nd hand report) works extremely well.

I host all of my side projects on Google App Engine and write them using Gaelyk. It is a lightweight Groovy framework for GAE, if you already know Java you're good to go. Once you get one project out, it is amazing how productive you can be. Check it out here: http://gaelyk.appspot.com Let me know if you want any help or would like to work together on something.

If you dont want to get involved with the sys admin

Heroku for Ruby Apps Google App Engine, Java or Python Windows Azure .net

If you want to maintain the server yourself a VPS is probably the best best Linode/Slicehost

Amazon S3 for static file storage

If you're a python or java programmer you could use Google App Engine. It seems ideal for small projects.

I know breakupnotifier.com was hosted on GAE.

And even if you aren't a java programmer, there's probably an implementation of your language of choice written for the JVM, which might work on AppEngine. Clojure definitely works, and I think JRuby does as well.

Wow. Great advice everyone. I'll probable start with GAE and see where I go from there as my experience/abilities improve.

i seem to remember threewordsme being hosted on Linode, they always seem a good choice. (btw, im no expert at all! no my side of the business :P)

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