As consensus seems to have been reached, I post this as CW so we can explain the rationales for our choice and give examples.
Hosting isn't fine
As a general rule, we do not accept hosting questions. We do accept hosting-related questions, ie questions about software interacting with a hosting service. Of course, we understand hosting isn't a self-evident notion. Please see the examples below if you need to be clear on what is regarded as hosting here on SR.
What exactly is "hosting"
It has been previously decided that we will accept webapps as answers. You cannot ask for a hosting provider, even indirectly. Questions that specify which webapp they want hosted somewhere are clearly off-topic. Questions that are about a service providing some information are not OK either, except if they're asking for a way to access that service. Faking the system asking for "a webpage that questions a given database for such and such info" are not fine either, as you could have guessed yourself.
For further reference, also see the Wikipedia article on "Internet Hosting Service".
Example of questions closed as "hosting questions", and rationale for closure
Looking for hosting for Laravel
Our "opening question" for this Meta page. No explanation needed: hosting for my laravel website is clearly asking for a hosting service, and not any kind of software.
Free image upload, with direct links and no advertisement
This was not an easy one to close, as it's well redacted. Nevertheless:
- it's not asking for either a program, app, or web-app
- it's asking for image hosting → Hosting
Social based github site, for art, projects, creation
- explicitly asking for a web based hosting service
- the "software" part doesn't need an answer, as the OP already has decided upon (git, Github)
eCommerce Payment Gateway with no percentage transaction fee?
Asking for a service, not for the software: looking at payment gateway and eCommerce services
Free web service for consumer drug information
Not asking for any kind of software, not even web-app or API – rather for a service providing the wanted information.
Website for file sharing and easy command line access
OP is looking for the hosting service again, the software part is already decided (wget). The "other way around" it would have been on-topic (looking for the command-line tools to exchange the files, with "wget" being on of the possible answers).
###Webservice that will run scripts 24/7 Though it might look like belonging into the next section (border-line: "Is it web-app or hosting?"), OP clearly wants his own scripts/web-apps being hosted, hence it's a "hosting question".
###Payment service OP is looking for a company dealing with his sites payment stuff ("what I'm looking for is a payment service". While some API might kick in eventually, the question's current main purpose is to find a service provider handling payment stuff in the specific way described – which clearly goes beyond the scrope of this site.
Hard-to-decide / unclear examples (aka "border-line?")
Items like the following might make a closer discussion necessary, dealing with where exactly the border is between "clearly hosting-related" and "a web-app implying hosting". Bens answer partly covers this, but we still have no "clear line" yet.
Online photo SHARING APP to show my album pictures on map based on EXIF GPS data
Originally explicitly asking for a service, it's no longer clear to me whether this one could not be seen as "web-app" request. It's obviously a mix of both, as it requires the images to be "hosted" on the given site.
