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http://www.mediatemple.net/
A hosting provider recommended by Happy Cogs (who designed the WordPress 2.5 admin panel). $20/month for shared hosting (1000 domains, 100Gb, 1Tb) , $50-$150/mth for virtual, $750/mth for a balls out dedicated server. Looks *very* good.
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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.
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http://order.1and1.co.uk/xml/order/VpsRoot
Virtual server pricing and spec details.
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http://filereplica.com/
A file is split into n chunks, encoded such that any m chunks (m<n) can be used to rebuild the original file. It can use half of the alternative storage requirements, but requires cpu overhead.
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https://www.appfog.com/
PaaS offering for a wide range of platforms, free up to 8 servers, 2G of ram, 100M database. Supports, PHP, Node.js and more.
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http://apphosted.com/
Simplified python hosting in "the cloud".
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http://www.3tera.com/
3tera provide a grid platform to deploy "virtual appliances" on a "virtual datacentre" built on top of commodity hardware, similar to Amazon's EC2/S3.
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http://www.ircmaxell.com/articles/benchmarks/lighttpd-vs.-apache---static-files.html
ircmaxwell benchmarks Lighttpd versus Apache when serving static files. Results are overwhelmingly in favour of lighttpd.
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http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
YSlow rules for optimising web performance from the Yahoo Developer Network. 34 rules that make sites faster. Very useful reading.
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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.
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http://www.bytemark.co.uk/index
UK based hosting provider, includes a managed hosting offering. Hat tip Steve Kemp, he works for them.
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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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http://www.rightscale.com/
A platform to manage cloud computing resources, deployments, and so on. Essentially a simplified front end for AWS as far as I can make out.
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http://cloudcontrol.com/
Scalable PHP PaaS service. Based on the concept of "boxes", which handle 2 simultaneous requests each, and can scale up and down dynamically. So 12 concurrent requests equals 6 boxes. Strange, but potentially cost effective for traffic peaks.
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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.
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http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1365
Code snippet to protect .svn / .bzr / CVS directories within apache system wide in the httpd.conf file.
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http://www.layeredtech.com/
Layered Tech provide dedicated servers from $49/month with 1'500 Gb of bandwidth. They appear to be even cheaper than UK2.
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http://howtonode.org/deploying-node-upstart-monit
Handy article covering how to create an upstart script for nodejs, also applies to coffeescript.
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http://www.digital-web.com/articles/client_side_load_balancing/
An article describing a system that uses client side load balancing in a Web application. Voxlite is the example application built on Amazon EC2 and S3.
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http://www.dnspark.com/services/dnsHosting.php
DNS Hosting from DNS Park, starting from $10/year/domain.
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http://www.easydns.com/
DNS hosting and other services from EasyDNS. DNS hosting starts at $20/year/domain.
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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.
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http://www.drbd.org/
DRBD is a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid-1.
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http://www.dyndns.com/
Dynamic DNS and DNS hosting from DynDNS. Starts at $25/year/domain for standard DNS.
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http://www.eapps.com/
Interesting web hosting company. VPS based hosting from $10/month including a dedicated IP and mailserver with webmail (squirrelmail / OpenWebMail).