Netherland-based hosting that I am using. It offers very basic monthly web-hosting package at 2.95/month (which means flexibility for high risk bloggers who need to move all the time!) or about USD 20 yearly. Check it out and see if it would be appropriate to include it in our pool of hosting farm.
This is a server-based billing software with a technical support ticket system that my web-host uses. Functionality seems to be quite robust and may be suitable for our needs. But license pricing isn't cheap. So this is just a reference and may it serve as an inspiration.
Building more interconnection between users and blogs is clearly part of the focus now with "followers."
Get More Out of the Navbar: The toolbar you have at the top of millions of blogs could do so much more. This is where you can put the feedback mechanisms, interlinking mechanisms, etc.
How can you make the content more interlinked and use the network to get more attention to the good stuff, thus rewarding the creating of more good stuff?