What do you use to quickly throw up small side projects?

Most of my throw-away projects are entirely frontend, so I just clone my static-site generator* – just a grunt tool that’s more flexible than Jekyll for my needs – and push the results to a new GitHub repo to be served by Pages. All repos are then available at eswat.ca/<repo-name>. Easy.

* https://github.com/eswat/cektop

It depends on the project. I tend to go with a digitalocean vps managed through cfengine3. I have a default template that I can set up quickly and change to match what I need.

I have openstack installed on an old sever, I just throw up images when I need them.

i rent an affordable dedicated machine to host go node and c# webapps on

EC2 cluster + Tutum.