Web Hosting for Startups

Looking around for some good resources online , for a small startup to host their dreams! this is what i found.

1. One of the most trusted names is SliceHost
advantage of going with Slicehost - you get your own server(read as a partition, called a slice in this case) to host your site on. You can totally customize, install your OS (any flavor of Linux) your web server(tomcat obv for open source java folks), your choice of database(mysql/postgre sql).

Disadvantages though, you need to setup even the firewall rules, iptables configurations etc. As if you bought your own server which you want to host your application on. Remember there are loads of information available on the site to assit you do this.There are blogs/wiki's/discussion forums etc on slicehost.com

Rates are not bad either 512 MB slice for 30$/month

2.javaservlethosting - This is a regular shared web hosting provider. They would actually do all the work for you, you get to worry about your application thats it. Disadvantage - you have no control on the setup. This one is defenitely for the non tech savy entrepreneurs.

Let me know what you guys think on web hosting provider? I will write about my experience in a few days time. I am defenitely going slicehost way unless you guys suggest something else.