Make a website in an hour with Django and Pinax

Hi Japhyr, I actually haven't taken this method through to deployment and scaling, so I can't personally answer the cost question (though hopefully someone else can.) I know that it's not super difficult to get Django running off an EC2 server, and unless your server is doing anything particularly complicated, you can probably get away with using Micro instances which are free for light use. Also, costs of scale are one of those "good problems" to have, since if you're getting to the point where you have enough traffic to be expensive, you'll have a much (relatively) easier time raising capital to fund your ongoing operations.