the only reason i have seen to avoid amazon as your hosting platform is if you are heavily database dependent. you can design around that if you can think a little bit around the lamp stack model.
for us our largest challenge will be how do we webscale the site.
our assumptions are
dynamic dns and round robin load balancing will get us to split any dns record to up to 5 machines reasonably
amazon now allows us to scale vertically to 8 core VM with 16gb of ram
*this should get us to a point where we are either making money, or getting a good funding round out of someone.
the only reason i have seen to avoid amazon as your hosting platform is if you are heavily database dependent. you can design around that if you can think a little bit around the lamp stack model.
for us our largest challenge will be how do we webscale the site.
our assumptions are dynamic dns and round robin load balancing will get us to split any dns record to up to 5 machines reasonably amazon now allows us to scale vertically to 8 core VM with 16gb of ram *this should get us to a point where we are either making money, or getting a good funding round out of someone.