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I've run into both those names in a negative context without even being a customer of either. Thanks for the suggestion, but those two aren't worth the risk :)

Aside: Wasn't Dreamhost the one who put an answerphone message from a distraught customer on their blog with an entry taking the piss? I tried to check, but I can't find any reference to it amongst the myriad other complaints...

Thanks, I'll look into that for offloading the image storage.

Rightly or wrongly, I dread turning it off once it's launched as much as I dread being out of pocket :)

I'm thinking that's the fear that I'll be getting over first, though, as it seems fairly unanimous that I should should just shut up and get on with it :)

> I have no idea what you're releasing though

No - I remember the knockoff debacle with the phone-me-to-tell-me-I'm-awesome idea, and while I agree with the "get over yourself, no-one cares" advice, I'm finding it a bit hard to swallow. It's a very obvious gap that's been sitting around unfilled for ages, and I'm not exactly quick to get things done :)

Thanks for the advice - over-scaling is right on the mark, I think.

Offloading the image part to a cheaper service is a good idea - the rest is fairly lightweight, and once they're generated, the images are themselves are fixed/cacheable. Thanks!