I totally recommend Python, it's as friendly as R with text. Also you can easily store your text in Databases and if you feel adventurous host the database on the cloud for further analytics. An example would be Bluemix from IBM, or Google cloud platform.
well, you can have some help with mining data analysis with R so it would be more conclusive to use some python packages like text mining package which will further provide you with a term-matrix for analysis with R where you can generate your word clouds and have more intensive analysis and visualization for your data