For very beginning startup: home server or EC2?

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Published on 2012-09-25T09:05:54Z Indexed on 2012/09/25 9:39 UTC
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The micro instance of Amazon EC2 only has ram of 613MB, my laptop got 8GB. And I suppose likewise the processing power of my computer would be better than the micro instance.

My question is, what are the considerations in deciding to host yourself or on Amazon EC2, especially for a really baby startup?

For example, would network speed be a problem? My computer broadband network is 100Mbs up to 1Gbs. What would Amazon compare to this?

My site at these moment would just host some images and perform some php requests. I would probably also use cloudflare but seems it increases the dns lookup time considerably... And of course the overall objective is to make the best user experience.

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