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copied!<p>Everyone's needs are different, but the great thing is that its easy to experiment with these cloud deployment tools in quick fashion, and you will find that they each have their own strengths that you can leverage as you need.</p> <p>What is most valuable to me, and my smaller clients, is to be able to experiment and get end-user feedback quickly. I have startup clients that want to be able to push out new ideas and test them quickly, deploy different combinations of ideas to different markets, get customer feedback, and keep moving forward. Launch a facebook app, a test server for an API integration client, a lightweight 'freemium' version of a product, etc. As traffic picks up, we make changes to scale up, and the increase in cost is never out of bounds (eg. our hosting costs are still well under the increase in value/revenue/marketing juice, etc).</p> <p>EngineYard lets you play around with 500hrs for free, and you can easily turn it off when you are not using it, to stretch the 500hrs out. You can deploy your app quickly, deploy a CI server (that updates the app on every successful build), create a backup of your app or 'staging' server and see how it goes.</p> <p>Amazon will give you 750hrs per month for free, for a year, if you are a new AWS customer. You can use this for a super fast CI server, hard-core image processing, batch reporting, whatever.</p> <p>Personally I happen to use Heroku the most, as it just seems to work the best for my needs. I can put together a new application with full monitoring, backup, analytics, email, etc really fast, and feel confident in how to manage my setup (and confident that I can bring another person on board, and their learning curve will be pretty easy). As a freelancer, my use of Heroku has brought my setup time down to almost nothing, so I'm able to focus my time on understanding the business, and developing a great product. I'm not saying that can't be done on other platforms, I'm just saying heroku is working great for me in that way. </p> <p>I do have one app that processes Voip data over UDP, so I'll need to figure out if I prefer amazon or engineyard for that (heroku won't let you open a UDP port, as far as I know).</p> <p>I recently put together <a href="http://www.railsperformance.com/2011/11/cloud-tools-for-rapid-development.html" rel="noreferrer">a presentation on these tools</a>, and how I use them. (it was for newer developers, so it may be too basic for this audience, but there is a list of pros/cons that others may find useful)</p> <p>Also, I think this conversation does belong here, and not necessarily on a webmasters forum, because the choice of hosting platform will influence your development capabilities and architecture, and the people making the decision are developers, not 'webmasters' or systems people.</p>

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