How are people hosting Geeklog

In general, cheap web-hosting has come of age. I'd love to use geeklog with one of the cheap web hosts for PHP/mysql ($9-$20/month)
Have people installed geeklog on such a shared web-host in the past?
I saw with slashcode, for example, that it uses a daemon and many shared web-hosts don't allow that. Are there equivalent dependencies in geeklog?
I've only seen one web host that explicitly supports GL as a service, but they were $50/month minimum.
I'd like to just download geeklog and install it on a PHP enabled shared web-host. Any comments on doing this or pointers to appropriate webhosts you're using would be greatly appreciated.