I have shifted to Linode from a Dreamhost shared account. My Dreamhost account was up for renewal,  and I decided that this is a good time to switch to a VPS . There are a couple of reasons behind that. First, I want to get some hands-on experience running a server.  Second, Dreamhost doesn’t play well with Django or Ruby (anything except PHP, I guess), which I need for my startup Allotrop.

My option was to keep the blogs on Dreamhost and then use AWS for my startup. Right  now, I am working alone on Allotrop, and I don’t want to spend the extra hours learning to manage AWS. Over-optimization is one of the more common mistakes we do. I will shift to Ec2 when needed. Also, after doing a fair bit of research, I found out that a cloud service like AWS makes sense once you expect traction. Allotrop is a few months away from launch, and I won’t spend any extra money than I absolutely need to.

By the way, if you are just starting out, and want to find a cheap shared host for your Wordpress and class projects, go for WebFaction. It has awesome support for Django, Rails and other application frameworks.