I am looking at options to host my Grails webapp. Being just a new website I don't expect a lot of traffic to begin with but I would like to have the option to be able to expand without jumping through hoops without breaking the bank.
I have been pondering over Cloudfoundry and Amazon ElasticBeanstalk. Can someone point out the pros and cons of these services and also point me to other services that might be out there.
There is also stax.net. It costs a little more than cloudfoundry (it adds some fees on the aws cost) but the advantage is that you can host more sites on a single vpn. (you can make slices of down to 256 mb). And the hosting for development and testing is free.
Recently it has been acquired and integrated into cloudbees. I don't know how CloudBees is, all I described about stax.net is on previous experience.
I don't have much experience but in the long run my bet will go with Amazon ElasticBeanstalk. Amazon is moving so fast ahead!