“Coding is a beautiful thing,” he says. “If there is a God, he definitely codes. There are fail-safes in the world. That’s code. I don’t want young black kids to aspire to be rappers or ballers. Even lawyers and doctors—those are service positions. I want them to be coders. They can make their own worlds then. They don’t need anybody else. I love hearing those kids’ ideas, all these kids on the Internet. The excitement of making something, that’s the spark of God.
I've been experimenting with Cloud66. Currently everything I have is on heroku. I'm going to be moving a few things over to cloud66.
It's definitely a little bit more work, but once you get over the learning curve and have your manifest/post-deploy hooks setup correctly... It's pretty much auto pilot. Scaling and deployment are a breeze.
I'm running it with digitalocean. Going to be saving a lot of $$.
My favorite part is running my own redis and memcached. No more need for expensive add-ons.
http://blog.ycombinator.com/new-hacker-news-guideline