I'll add a bit of news to this too -

Amazon's S3 file storage service, specifically their Cloudfront service, now supports naming a default object within a given storage bucket. What this means is you can now store & serve static HTML websites directly from Amazon, with no need for a regular hosting account at all as long as you don't need scripting, databases, or email.

The cost is so low for both bandwidth and storage that you can have tens of thousands of pages and decent volumes of traffic, and pay hardly anything for hosting. Your files are copied to Amazon's cloud server network throughout the world, so your files are physically closer to your visitors and will be served faster.

I'm moving to 100% static sites + RSS file for my own sites over the next few months. Though I'll continue offering Wordpress services to the marketplace, since that's what it wants, Wordpress hardly seems worth the hassle anymore for my own sites. Blogs get most of their mileage from RSS anyway, so why not skip all the security upgrades, comment spam & other hassles to begin with.

Anyway, I can see this working well with most of the Tuelz. There will be no FTP capability with S3, but I can live with that.