Just one question: what host would you recommend to
use these? 
 I personally really like Ingen! 
 
 I would be very intersted in trying Ingen too but it does not work under
 Ubuntu (the package is grotesqely broken) and I do not manage to build
 all the plethora of packages from drobillard....
 So,,, anything else? 
 
My repository for Ubuntu offers the latest SVN Ingen.
I try to keep it up to date: