Over the last 5 days, I have been re-coding PickyList – a new database and a new user experience. Since I was already on a terror, I decided to check out some “Cloud Hosting Services” – right now we are paying a decent chunk per month at GoDaddy, with no quick way to scale.

I started playing with RightScale and Amazons EC2 – and while it was cool to see it work – the amount of  time and brainpower required to do everything was simply to much.  And then I found Aptana Cloud – (the clouds opened and rays of sunshine danced over my head)

Aptana Cloud is an absolutely amazing product/service. Their free 21 day trial, and the ability to test your application without even entering a credit card was an breath of fresh air. Setup is super fast, and it only took me about 20 minutes to get the entire PickyList product up and running.

Aptana offers a few different pricing models ranging from $30 to $200 a month – depending on the Ram and Disk space. You also get a default Staging and Live enviornment, a beautiful and simple dashboard, SSH, SFTP, FTP, Mysql, SVN and ROOT access.

Check out this video on how it works.