[doobiaus]

My short answer is, go with what you know, it's better to have a solid working product than a flakey pile of learner spaghetti.

I'm a .net dude at a startup though and to be fair long term costs should be factored in, but can be mitigated. For one BizSpark is an absolute must to get started, and once you graduate there are the Action Packed for a few hundred dollars a year.

I would however suggest you look rather at using oss where possible even from . Net. We have used MySQL, Mongodb and redis on Linux because it keeps scaling costs down, and to be frank they' re better supported on the platform.

We also leverage BitBucket and TeamCity rather than TFS for cost reasons.

Having said that both Azure and AWS have fairly scalable windows and SQL hosting services.