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I find it amazing how expensive Java based website hosting is. I'm currently paying $20 Canadian/month, for my own VM and Tomcat instance, plus MySQL. That's not too bad, but it is a lot more than the US$5/month I was paying for Perl/PHP/MySQL hosting previously. I realize that Java Servlet hosting takes more memory than Perl/PHP, but I'm surprised that the difference can be justified. I think it might be a lack of competition in the Servlet hosting market.

Ideally, a hosting provider would have:

• JDK1.4.2
• Tomcat
• MySQL
• Access to the Apache<->webapp mappings
• An easy domain management system
• Decent uptime and storage limits