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  1. http://www.resellerclub.com/
    Domain and hosting reseller program. Starts from $100 signup and prices drop as the total lifetime spending on the account increases. Interesting model, competitive pricing. Ability to resell.
  2. http://www.bytemark.co.uk/index
    UK based hosting provider, includes a managed hosting offering. Hat tip Steve Kemp, he works for them.
  3. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/
    Pretty interesting hosting service that's pay as you go, where you pay only for what you use. Pricing starts near 1c per day. They also believe strongly in freedom of speech.
  4. http://moinmo.in/
    Wiki written in python as used by Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Debian and others. Uses flat file storage by default. Lovely.
  5. http://www.maxcdn.com/
    1TB of data for $39 (limited offer at 18 Mar 2011). Hat tip Anthony Feint. Plugins for drupal, wordpress, etc. Data is around 10c/gb up to 50TBs, comparable to EC2.
  6. http://www.tungle.me/
    Neat calendar service. Sync with desktop clients, mobiles, etc and then displays public availability and allows people to schedule events while handling timezones smoothly. Hat tip Anthony Feint.
  7. http://page.ly/
    WordPress hosting from some nice looking folks in Austin (or Boulder, or somewhere in the US).
  8. http://www.enki.co/
    Managed cloud computing. A slicehost server for about $50 is roughly equivalent to $113 with enki. Not outrageous for a managed service, depending on how deep the management goes.
  9. http://linuxhotel.de/
    The linux hotel in Essen, Germany. Site almost entirely in German.
  10. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1615383
    Post about linking vsftpd to mysql via pam-mysql. Contains detailed copies of config files, useful.
  11. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1149573
    Topic on vsftpd / mysql via pam-mysql, contains some useful info on logging data via pam-mysql.
  12. http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/125789
    Article on how to link vsftpd to mysql via pam-mysql. Handy.
  13. http://imageshack.us/
    A sort of pastebin style something for content like images (maybe video and others as well).
  14. http://www.firehost.com/
    The managed hosting company used by page.ly. He raves about them.
  15. http://www.servint.net/
    Managed VPS and dedicated server hosting from ServInt. They are carbon positive. Used by Scot Hacker at Birdhouse hosting.
  16. http://hosting.birdhouse.org/
    WordPress focused hosting from Scot Birdhouse. He's built and released some tools to manage many wp sites from the shell.
  17. http://www.nameroute.com/
    NameRoute are a UK based domain registration company, sister to HostRoute, their hosting half. They're the cheapest registrar I could find for .ac and .io domains, $50 each.
  18. http://www.johncompanies.com/
    Hosting company from the same people as rsync.net. Reasonably priced, probably ultra reliable, and well suited for privacy, etc.
  19. http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1364
    Code snippet to protect .svn / .bzr / CVS directories within apache via the .htaccess file for a single site.
  20. http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1365
    Code snippet to protect .svn / .bzr / CVS directories within apache system wide in the httpd.conf file.
  21. http://www.01.com/
    Email / Zimbra hosting from 01.com. Starts from about $50/mailbox/year. Optional "Legal Compliance" service that archives all incoming / outgoing mail permanently for $25/mailbox/year. Nice feature.
  22. http://svnrepository.com/
    As used by Incsub.
  23. http://www.ubuntugeek.com/monitoring-ubuntu-services-using-monit.html
    A howto on setting up monit on an Ubuntu server. Fairly simple and straightforward. Includes basic info on customising alerts and so on.
  24. http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/
    Put simply, Puppet is a system for automating system administration tasks. It's a language to define services, nodes, dependencies, and so on. Then it handles the "realisation" or "execution" of those definitions across multiple platforms, etc.
  25. http://www.capify.org/
    Capistrano is a system built in Ruby to execute commands on many servers, in parallel via SSH. Config files, jobs, etc are written in Ruby.

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