This could be

• Managed Hosting provider like Rack Space where they host hardware, do support/maintenance/monitoring for basic services (Web Server, SMTP, etc.)

  • JoyEnt? http://joyent.com/accelerator

• remote dedicated rented hardware that you manage yourself (except for the hardware itself)

• dedicated equipment in a CoLo,

• or shared space where I could run anything,

• or just a specific hosted application (like Userland Manila or ZoPe, though perhaps then you should just call them an ASP).

Right now fluxent.com runs on ZoPe at IMeme.

• http://saturated.net is an alternative

Some (maybe NYC-only) low-cost hosting providers recommended by others

• [Web Faction] looks promising, seeming to support any long-running process that doesn't eat up too much [RAM]...

• http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Peer1.html

• http://www.inch.com/

• http://www.dreamhost.com/ - see lots of complaints around

• http://www.hostmatters.com/

• http://ipowerweb.com

• http://cornerhost.com/ Corner Host

• Pair http://www.pair.com/pair/shared/

• http://www.johncompanies.com/

• http://www.he.net/

• http://www.aktiom.net/

• [GoDaddy] support PyThon, but CGI only (for Ruby On Rails they do FastCGI)

elsewhere

• [Laughing Squid] was recommended by a friend http://laughingsquid.net/

Joel Spolsky on his hardware/network selections.

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