Response to Wicked Fast Typist
My hosting situation is the same as Charles's. Trupod Internet Services (that's me) is a Hostgator reseller. So it's linux/cpanel in a GREEN data center in Texas. Hostgator's support of me (the reseller) is great, but my clients must get their support from me not Hostgator (unlike reselling GoDaddy, where they directly support my clients). This is fine in the case of my web development clients, but a pain for me when a stranger online pays me $9.95 for a year of registration (my profit margin: $1.95) and then can't set up DNS properly.
I have no incremental out-of-pocket expense from giving a free hosting account to bjoomug, just a loss of disk and bandwidth against the limits imposed by my reseller level. The server settings (both php and sql versions and options) have never limited me vis a vis choice of Joomla versions and extensions, ditto for WordPress and every other script installable by Fantastico, ditto for WHMCS. ...butI haven't tried them all...