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Early last week I set out to make my first Facebook application (more about this later).  One of the challenges a Facebook application contributor faces is finding hosting.  Luckily for me, I stumbled upon Joyent, which recently partnered with Dell to give away Facebook application virtual hosting for one year. Their Facebook Accelerator - a free virtual machine - supports Java, Ruby on Rails and PHP right out of the box. Great, everything you need plus a dedicated fiber link right to Facebook's data center, for free. But this isn't what makes Joyent intresting. ... read article