Free Hosting???
Posted on February 19, 2002
Today, I was looking for some options for setting up a website for clinic where I work. I went to the department’s designated IT contact, told him about what I wanted to do, and asked him about the options. He said the department as a whole had a web account with the University, but he thought the best bet would be to add webpage privileges to my account. We talked a bit about it and he mentioned he thought every staff member or student was allowed 10-20 megs of space for their own personal websites. More than enough for what I was planning. He told me how to get the privileges added to my account and where to get more information on what is involved in the setup and hosting. I went ahead and got the privileges added, and I looked into what they had to offer.
From what I saw, they have Apache (good) 1.2 (oh, well), PHP, and Perl. The site didn’t mention anything about SQL or databases in general. I sent an email regarding this to someone who hasn’t gotten back to me yet. However, I did see one thing that took me by complete surprise – they allow up to 100 megs and they have the option of domain hosting!!! That blew my mind.
Of course, I haven’t looked at their service agreement, but at least it’s available to look at. I also haven’t gone and looked at the specifics of it, but on the face, it seems like a great deal. I guess you could call it a perk of the job (from my geeky point-of-view, at least).
What happens to this also depends on things like what the service agreement says (i.e. restrictions), and what kind of databases they have, if any. I don’t see why they wouldn’t though, because they also offer ecommerce/shopping cart and search, which I would think would require some type of RDBMS to work.
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