Hosting Companies: Help for Python Users?

[Larry Bates]

Steve Holden wrote:
> 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

Apollo Hosting has this available (www.apollohosting.com).

-Larry