Personally, I use Linode's VPS hosting to host my own server.The diskspace and memory are easily expanded, all data is persistent, and it's a fixed price/month.
They only offer Linux images, but at least you know exactly how much you'll gonna pay.
But then again, I think "Cloud" services are over-hyped anyway, and I fail to see which problem they are supposed to solve compared to traditional hosting or VPS hosting.
Personally, I use Linode's VPS hosting to host my own server.The diskspace and memory are easily expanded, all data is persistent, and it's a fixed price/month.
They only offer Linux images, but at least you know exactly how much you'll gonna pay.
But then again, I think "Cloud" services are over-hyped anyway, and I fail to see which problem they are supposed to solve compared to traditional hosting or VPS hosting.