No, because these are overwhelmingly shopping recommendations.

The kind of recommendations we host there have characteristics which give them value beyond the asker. They define a problem to be solved, and call for answers that are solutions to this problem. Anyone else with the same problem is likely to find the advice given in solutions relevant. Although software can become unavailable and prices can vary, such events are relatively rare.

On the other hand, a request for a pure hosting service is extremely sensitive to price. Prices vary based significantly in time, based on geographical location, and based on the precise amount of data or computation that is performed. Recommendations on hosting alone can very rarely be expected to have lasting value.

This is the same argument raised against hardware recommendations, only to a far worse degree.

While any recommendation for a service provider suffers from the same defect, the degree is significantly less as the field is much reduced and the differentiation between actors is greater. Hosting provider A provides substantially the same services as hosting provider PPPP, whereas software-as-a-service provider A provides substantially different services from software-as-a-service provider C.

We may need to see more examples to draw the line.

No, because these are overwhelmingly shopping recommendations.

The kind of recommendations we host there have characteristics which give them value beyond the asker. They define a problem to be solved, and call for answers that are solutions to this problem. Anyone else with the same problem is likely to find the advice given in solutions relevant. Although software can become unavailable and prices can vary, such events are relatively rare.

On the other hand, a request for a pure hosting service is extremely sensitive to price. Prices vary based significantly in time, based on geographical location, and based on the precise amount of data or computation that is performed. Recommendations on hosting alone can very rarely be expected to have lasting value.

This is the same argument raised against hardware recommendations, only to a far worse degree.

While any recommendation for a service provider suffers from the same defect, the degree is significantly less as the field is much reduced and the differentiation between actors is greater. Hosting provider A provides substantially the same services as hosting provider PPPP, whereas software-as-a-service provider A provides substantially different services from software-as-a-service provider C.

We may need to see more examples to draw the line.