Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

After working with Java servlets, jsp, and custom taglibs for a while, I'm planning to re-do a low-end ecommerce site I originally made for a friend a few years ago in Perl with servlets and custom tags. The problem is that I need to find somewhere to host it.

Up to this point, I've done all my Java-related development with a server I physically control and have total access to. Unfortunately, my home DSL line doesn't quite have the reliability his site needs, so I've got to look elsewhere for this particular site.

I've pretty much figured out that I need to have my own private servlet container that I can restart at will, as well as the ability to modify my own Tomcat XML conf. files for taglib purposes.

Good connectivity and reliable service would be nice, too.

Hand-holding is less important to me than the confidence that they set it up correctly to begin with and the ability to fix things myself without having to depend upon someone else to do it... especially if the people I need to depend upon aren't terribly reliable. It's hard enough to debug taglibs without trying to debug a servlet configuration you don't have access to in the first place...

I looked around a bit, but most of the hosting companies I saw that offered servlet/jsp hosting didn't fill me with a lot of confidence that they had the slightest clue how to let multiple users share a physical machine with their own personal and independent servlet container and setup. For most of them, "servlet" seemed to be more of a buzzword they threw into their laundry list of included services with little thought to what it actually entails to do it the right way.

I'd strongly prefer somewhere under $100/month... $40-60 would be nice (he's paying $50/month to host his site now, so I'm going to have to come up with a really, really good and compelling reason to get him to pay more besides "I want to do it in Java").

Any suggestions?