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http://apphosted.com/
Simplified python hosting in "the cloud".
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http://blog.cfelde.com/2011/05/performance-rackspace-cloud-vs-amazon-web-services/
Interesting article comparing Rackspace and AWS performance when applying high frequency trading strategies against 10 years of archive data. Rackspace io kicks ass, CPU slightly ahead.
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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://copperegg.com/
Yet another monitoring app. Copper Egg combines real user monitoring, generic metric logging, server monitoring and maybe other stuff(?) into one application. Pricing starts at $19/month. Not unreasonable.
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http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html
publicfile is a http / ftp server which only serves static content, but does so extremely effectively. It's a popular choice for static file hosting systems.
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http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net/
DenyHosts blocks hosts after several failed login attempts. It also provides a subscription service where you can share hosts that you block, so as to block attackers before they try the first login.
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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://engineering.gomiso.com/2011/01/04/easy-monitoring-of-varnish-with-munin/
Very useful walkthrough on setting up munin to monitor Varnish. Explains how to install and configure munin, which is very simple and very valuable.
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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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http://haproxy.1wt.eu/
HAProxy is a TCP proxy / load balancer which will work for HTTP and a range of other applications. It advertises a small but expert user base and offers a range of very useful load balancing features. Apparently it competes with pound and ultramonkey.
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http://highscalability.com/
This site tries to bring together all the lore, art, science, practice, and experience of building scalable websites into one place so you can learn how to build your system with confidence.
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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://hostpapa.com/
A totally renewable energy powered hosting company, they power their data centres, servers and offices with 100% renewable energy.
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http://imageshack.us/
A sort of pastebin style something for content like images (maybe video and others as well).
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http://kencochrane.net/blog/2011/06/django-gunicorn-nginx-supervisord-fabric-centos55/
Useful article on how to deploy django apps on nginx. Handy.
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http://kencochrane.net/blog/2011/06/django-hosting-roundup-who-wins/
Article mentioning a selection of django hosting providers that provide "managed hosting". Very useful, some great companies.
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http://kosmosfs.sourceforge.net/
An open source, distributed, failure resilient file system similar to GFS (from google). Supports automatic addition of nodes, redundancy, and so on.
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http://lightningbase.com/
Hosted WordPress service which includes an affiliate program that pays 20% for the lifetime of the account, plans start from $10/month.
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http://linuxhotel.de/
The linux hotel in Essen, Germany. Site almost entirely in German.
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http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/
Hadoop is a distributed computing platform / filesystem. It provides HDFS which is similar to GFS (Google Filesystem) and MapReduce which splits programming tasks into small chunks. It's target is 10'000 node clusters.
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http://magebenchmark.sonassi.com/
A site that apparently compares the "speed" of magento hosting providers. Dubious without further research.
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http://moinmo.in/
Wiki written in python as used by Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Debian and others. Uses flat file storage by default. Lovely.
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http://orchestra.io/
PHP PaaS provider based in Ireland, acquired by Engine Yard.
