Hosting Companies: Help for Python Users?

[Steve Holden]

I know there are quite a few hosting companies now who represent 
themselves as Python-friendly. Rather than trawl through the Wiki pages, 
however, and email each one separately I am sending this request to the 
comp.lang.python list (and putting it on my blog) in the hope of 
attracting those companies who are more involved with the Python community.

There is a particular problem, highlighted recently by this comment from 
Dennis Lee Beiber:

 > Too many 3rd-party modules still aren't available in 2.5
 > versions for my tastes...

This applies particularly (though not exclusively) to the Windows 
platform, for various reasons -- the most common one is that Linux 
developers frequently don't have a Windows machine available to help 
them test their builds and ensure that distributions are available.

I am trying to address this problem, initially by making hosted Windows 
machines available for use as buildbots. I already have agreement from 
Grig Gheorghiu (who maintains the PSF's buildbots) to try and support 
these efforts, and from Microsoft to consider providing appropriate 
software.

What I *don't* have is hosting companies offering me space on machines 
in their racks. If anyone reading this can help out I'd appreciate it if 
they would get in touch with me (replying to the newsgroup post or 
commenting on the blog entry should do it). These machines would need 
remote desktop access so they could be managed without physical presence.

The intention is to try and shorten the "version lag" so that new 
versions of Python can be better supported more quickly. I don't 
guarantee that this will happen overnight, but I'd like to make a start.

regards
  Steve
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