I am. It's my first web service and couldn't justify the expenditure
of a cloud based service. In fact, because it's my first experience,
I'm a really better off with the entire control. I can see exactly
what happens, when it happens. I can also switch database as I see
fit, the only requirement being to be runnable on my machine.
It simply runs on my working computer, on the background. - 5.8 GB - 4 CPUs @ 2.33 ghz
If I ever need to get more power/memory/bandwidth, (which would be a nice problem) then I'll reconsider.
I suppose this is all a question of scale. Is your startup getting 10s, 100s, 1000s visitors a day?