".Net and Microsoft in general are not good at starting things but they finish others creation much better. NoSql was sparked in the genius RoR community (along with MVC, gems..etc) but once .NET catches up, the implementation is much superior and spot on."
- Mohamed Salem Korayem
"You're getting it all wrong with the assumption "If you require a hostname, you're no longer just building a prototype." That's not right at all. According to the comments, developers have 3-5 "pet" projects that attract very low trafffic. That's $30-$50/month. A single rackspace cloud server costs around $58/mo and I can have 20+ pet projects there so long as they dont demand much traffic and the installed sql express on the same server will be sufficient. http://www.rackspace.com/cloud... Here's a suggestion: define a traffic bandwidth tipping point after which a "free" "Canoe" is considered costy to. Scan through all the apps you have right now running and split them. So long as your app has near nil traffic, hostnames come for free, else, we have to pay."
- Mohamed Salem Korayem
"I have to agree with Austin Fatheree $10 for setting a hostname is a deadend for me. A small calculation and I am back to Rackspace to host my apps which dont get much traffic anyways. I am ok paying $10 IF that domain is receiving a siginificant amount of traffic. But to pay for all those domains who dont get any traffic $10/month is too much to ask for IMHO and will throw alot of people off. You're getting it all wrong with the assumption "If you require a hostname, you're no longer just building a prototype." That's not right at all."
- Mohamed Salem Korayem