MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop writes:
Another type of provider is a web-application user cooperative: groups of users gathering together to employ people who can maintain a webserver and application(s) for them. There are currently very few of these and all the ones I know about serve limited communities.
I suspect there are lots of informal arrrangements along similar lines -- I know of at least four groups of friends-of-friends who club together to pay to host a machine that's run by one of the group. I run a virtual machine that's home to about twenty people this way.