[smt88]

> Increasingly I am using more free/paid SAAS for services like file uploads, emails, storage, monitoring, etc.

Yes! I forgot to mention this in my answer.

For prototyping, Parse is great. I recently built something in an hour that would've taken me a day in the past.

When I get past the prototype, RDS, S3, and Dploy.io are also huge time-savers.

[bikamonki]

I surely will check out dploy.io, I was uploading static sites to AWS S3 through the AWS Console :(

[smt88]

There are actually a lot of solutions (cloud-based, as well as local/terminal-based) for this. I can't say that Dploy.io is the best, because I haven't used many others. I will say that it's "good enough" for me -- provides web hooks and allows rollback.