> For normal web hosting, though, you just can't beat the commercial > guys. Even cheap, cheap, cheap hosting (Dreamhost, for example) is > really good -- uptime is constant, backups are automatic, restores > are trivial, and you really have a lot of freedom in what you can > install and run. A lot, but not infinite. I'm on Dreamhost, and anything that involves a daemon or other ongoing process is a no-go (though cron jobs are OK). That does put a crimp in some things. Also, Dreamhost's reliability has been lousy lately. I certainly wouldn't host any library-mission-critical services there. Dorothea