AWS - RDS, EMR and S3
Hetzner - Crawling and CPU intensive computing
In the early days AWS allowed us to spin a crazy amount of machines up with basically no capital outlay.
Depending on your status... AWS, Rackspace and Softlayer would more than likely throw some $$ your way to play with. That could set you on your way for a couple of months.
AWS - RDS, EMR and S3 Hetzner - Crawling and CPU intensive computing
In the early days AWS allowed us to spin a crazy amount of machines up with basically no capital outlay.
Depending on your status... AWS, Rackspace and Softlayer would more than likely throw some $$ your way to play with. That could set you on your way for a couple of months.