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> Most every startup will start in the cloud

And yet the poll does not bear that out. The real cost of starting in "the cloud" is often very high -- 3x the cost of a VPS or more -- and you can handle an awful lot of traffic on a 512MB VPS.

I actually found the comments informative to gain better insight as to why people use different setups. I had assumed that same as what you said, which turned out to be less often true than I thought.

I wanted to know what real developers were using. Obviously big companies are using their own hardware but I'm interested specifically on the usage of developers similar to me. I expected more votes for SaaS than VPS/dedicated to be honest.