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http://apphosted.com/
Simplified python hosting in "the cloud".
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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://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://order.1and1.co.uk/xml/order/VpsRoot
Virtual server pricing and spec details.
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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.eapps.com/
Interesting web hosting company. VPS based hosting from $10/month including a dedicated IP and mailserver with webmail (squirrelmail / OpenWebMail).
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http://www.easyspace.com/vservers.php
Virtual server pricing and spec details.
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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.
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http://www.firehost.com/
The managed hosting company used by page.ly. He raves about them.
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http://www.heroku.com/
Ruby, Node.js and Clojure application hosting. Pricing is based on web and background workers. One node free.
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http://www.johncompanies.com/
Hosting company from the same people as rsync.net. Reasonably priced, probably ultra reliable, and well suited for privacy, etc.
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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://www.linode.com/
Linode are a linux virtual server hosting company. Jeff Waugh (jdub) in Sydney uses them. Fairly cheap to reasonably expensive.
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http://www.lowendbox.com/
Really useful site with some outrageously cheap VPS deals. Very useful, well organised, no search / filters, but offers expire I guess, so reading a few pages is ok.
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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.
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http://www.maxvps.com/
A cheap VPS hosting company recommended by Morgan Tocker
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http://www.maxvps.com/vps/professional.php
Virtual server pricing and spec details.
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http://www.redwoodvirtual.com/
VPS hosting company starting from $10/month (not $9.95, $10!) for 2gb disk, 100gb data. Plain text, simple web site, based in the US, copyright sensetive.
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http://www.servint.net/
Managed VPS and dedicated server hosting from ServInt. They are carbon positive. Used by Scot Hacker at Birdhouse hosting.
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http://www.slicehost.com/
Slicehost offer a breath of fresh air from the typical hosting company. Simple, easy, reliable hosting. Starts from $20/month. Wicked featuers (ajax console, rescue mode, etc, etc).
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http://www.strato-hosting.co.uk/v-server/packages.html
Virtual server pricing and spec details.
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http://www.webfusion.co.uk/virtual-private-servers/
Virtual server pricing and spec details.
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https://phpfog.com/
PHP cloud hosting. Very slick architecture. Custom managed EC2 nodes deployed behind varnish caches and nginx load balancers. Fairly reasonably priced.
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UncomplicatedFirewall
Very simple guide to using ufw to create firewall rules. `ufw allow ssh/tcp && ufw allow http/tcp && ufw allow https/tcp && ufw enable && ufw status` done. :-)
