I'm a real newbie in terms of web server deployment, but for my first web app I went with an EC2 VPS because I had no idea what sort of traffic to expect and how I would handle spikes. Despite having a pretty decent VPS from Inception hosting (whom I recommend, no affiliation), I wouldn't know what to do to scale up.
EC2 seems to handle all that nicely by letting you just upgrade instance types as you need them, and providing burst performance for spikes in traffic. It seems like a pretty fire-and-forget solution and I've not paid them any money yet (10 days, 30,000 hits)... So far I'm happy but really I've no idea what I'm doing.
EC2 seems to handle all that nicely by letting you just upgrade instance types as you need them, and providing burst performance for spikes in traffic. It seems like a pretty fire-and-forget solution and I've not paid them any money yet (10 days, 30,000 hits)... So far I'm happy but really I've no idea what I'm doing.