Not only that, it introduced me to a company that somehow had completely slipped under my radar and that I really really wish I'd known about few month ago.
I will almost definitely be using them in the near future.
I'm a very happy PiCloud customer. They have "Environments", which let you log into an instance and install whatever you want. You can then run your code on that customized instance in the future. So your Python code can access any weird compiled packages you want. You can also "publish" Python routines, which can then be called through a RESTful interface. I use this to completely decouple my website code from my computationally intensive code. (The Django website just calls the published functions.) I've had good support on the few issues I've had.
I like it (no sarcasm). Good technique for writing a company blog.