http://prgmr.com/ doesn't have space available right now, but they have VPS plans starting at $5/month and I've heard good things about them from people on HN.

Run by one of our very own: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lsc

Seconded. I have a server on prgmr.com right now that's running node.js and I've been very pleased. Fast servers and and perfect uptime, so far. Sign up for the waiting list if you're interested. The only konck against them besides the waiting list is that it takes a day or so from when you purchase the VPS to when It's ready.

Prgmr is great if you need a small affordable instance and don't need to worry too much about performance (http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparison). I use one 256MB instance ($8/month) as a development box.

They are great I have one that I use for fun stuff and netbsd is a pretty easy setup if you want it. Once they email you that they have new VPS's be sure to sign up pretty quickly though because they run out fast.

Yes I've been on the waiting list for one of those for a while, even with Heroku supporting Node.js I would get one. It is a very good price and it's always nice to have a small VPS for random stuff.

Does anyone have an experience with http://burst.net ? Their VPS starts at 5.95/month (512M) and 9.95/month (1G), cheapest I've seen but I don't know anything about them.

Rackspace Cloud instances come in at $10 / mo for the smallest size.

That doesn't include bandwidth costs though. $0.22/GB for outgoing traffic, and $0.08/GB for incoming traffic.

True, but he said it was a small app.

I didn't know that! Thanks :)

I know how you feel. I even hacked up a CGI library for node.js so I could host it on a shared server:

http://brianmckenna.org/blog/nodejs_via_cgi

It would have been great if this came out a few days earlier...

hmm It's worth give a try on heroku... I looked at http://elusivehippo.com/... the price seems outrageous min $63 per month... is this the standard price??

Sorry about that. ElusiveHippo originally started as a python deployment system for higut.com. I ended up needing to create a demo/portfolio site to show prospective employers how I could pick up new technology. So I very quickly wrote a node version, released it into the wild, and waited to see how far it would go on its own. Then, I disappeared to San Francisco for a week without checking back on it.

None of the details on the site are standard or set in stone - all the pricing numbers were completely made up. Not only that, but there's actually no indication that the system works at all, is there? :) There are about 20 working alpha accounts in various hands, but it doesn't really matter if it worked or not - there's clearly been some effects ^_^.

Again, sorry for any confusion. I could write a blog post about the details, the implementation, and the aftermath if people were interested. Then, people could fairly easily implement their own. I've converted many ex-PHP, ex-Rails, ex-Django coders to nodejs using this demo site!

A VPS could be easily shared if you have couple friends interested...