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Re:Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing by sdrinf on Thursday September 01, 2011 @02:47AM (#2948905)
https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/services/pricing been around since 2002, does automatic load-balancing, have most of the benefits of what people are calling "cloud-computing", makes no presumptions about language of choice, does MySQL, and is extremely competitively priced.
Re:Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing by sciurus on Thursday September 01, 2011 @10:20AM (#2950099)
"makes no presumptions about language of choice"

Yes, but don't they do this by running everything as CGI scripts? That won't perform well.

http://example72.nfshost.com/versions.php

Re:Google App Engine leaves preview, new pricing by sergeys on Thursday September 01, 2011 @05:44PM (#2951917)
There's a 'pools beta' that runs your stuff in bsd jail. Worked well with mod_wsgi in my tests (I'm not using it in production though).