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I think this site would be useful for developers trying to choose web hosting. I think some more information that could be added is what programming languages and plugins they support. Also, it would be nice if you could do something similar for cloud datastores. Finally, it might just be me but I wasn't sure whether or not I was going to a real page so some graphic design tweaks might be helpful. All in all, I think it's useful.

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Thanks. This generally seems like a bit direction into Platform as a Service, which I will defenitely need to go. That is Google Apps Engine / Windows Azure space. Though the border between IaaS and PaaS is getting blurred, since IaaS providers give more and more platform services, while PaaS are going into IaaS as well (Azure now has VM role in beta).

Yeah I agree, I didn't even think of them as IaaS because I'm so used to Heroku and other PaaS now that I assume the other ones are too. My bad. Maybe having a separate tab/page for PaaS would be helpful?

PaaS is much more difficult to compare in price terms, since they completely different pricing models and are difficult to translate. So at first I was thinking to address PaaS as finding tool - so you choose what language and components you need and you get a list of providers, but without prices, at least at first. Do you think it would be good enough for start?

Yeah that alone would be really helpful. I think that's a great place to start

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