Should a Web Startup Go Straight To the Cloud?

Javaman59 writes "I am a one person company developing a web site from home. The site is hoped to attract millions of accounts and daily hits (just to give an idea of the scale of things, as its important to the question). My infrastructure is currently Visual Studio 2010 on a PC. To progress the site I need to set up version control, continuous integration, and staging. I have a Win2008 server VM, with all the Windows software (free and legal) to do this. However, I am only just competent as a Win admin, and I foresee each step of the way (setting up a domain; SQL-Server, etc) as a slow, risky process, and a big disruption to development. Should I forget my VM server (it will make a nice games machine!) and just go straight to the cloud for all my infrastructure?"

Should a Web Startup Go Straight To the Cloud?

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The Galaxy Tab Hitting Verizon Wireless November 11th For $600 Straight Up

Verizon will soon be a one-stop shop for all your tablet needs. Come November 11th, the wireless carrier will be selling the Galaxy Tab alongside the iPad. The only thing is, the Galaxy Tab is a bit more expensive at $600 without any sort of subsidy and doesn't come with a MiFi. But hey, maybe you have and Android tattooed on the underside of wrist and would rather have a 7-inch tablet rather than a 10-inch. Fine by Verizon. They'll be happy to sell you whatever you want. Buyers will have the option of adding on a $20 monthly data plan that will give their Galaxy Tab 1GB of data. That's the same price as Verizon's iPad plan. This announcement actually answers a lot of questions about the Galaxy Tab's US release. Samsung made it known a few weeks back that the US's four major carriers would sell the tablet, but details were absent. Now we can properly speculate.

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