Data.sparkfun.com: A place to push your data
That's the most honest IoT effort I've seen yet. The only thing better would be a VM I could spin up that let me self host an instance of this.Edit: I know you can install phant yourself, but I'm not a node guy so I don't have an enviro just at the ready. I do use VMware player all the time thought to try stuff out. An aws image wouldn't be terrible either. Doesn't sound like a long hike to make a nice polished "IoT" backend server.