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Because of the nature and complexity of Scoop, you really kind of have to be root to use it effectively. This means you can either go with a host who supports it already (Scoophosting, or Altercom for example) and use whatever codebase they maintain, or you're probably going to either need a colo or a dedicated host. Rackspace, for example, will sell you your own virtual machine where you have root and can do anything you want. If all you have is a user account on a shared box, it will be very tough to run Scoop unless you really know what you're doing with perl, mod_perl, and mysql stuff. Even then, they may not be happy with you, as Scoop tends to like particular server settings that are kind of non-standard.
K5 is on a box that's colo'd at VHosting. They provide the bandwidth, but the machine is all ours. If you want to maintain your code yourself, this really is the best way to go.
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