Free Web Hosting?

frank · Post by **frank** » Wed May 23, 2007 5:30 pm

I am looking for a good free web hosting service that supports server side scripting such as php. Does anyone know of any good free hosting sites? Thanks,

Frank

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:02 pm

Maybe this will help?

frank · Post by **frank** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:05 pm

Thanks for that link, I was looking into some of those. I was just looking to see what other people use. I would sure hate to end of with one that was actually a fake site that was just there to steal my information.

chase · Post by **chase** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:29 pm

The free one are usually more hassle than they are worth. There are lots of companies that you can host with for less than $10 dollars a month. I don't use their cheap plan but osdev is at www.eleven2.com and there are even cheaper places like http://www.godaddy.com. If it is something to do with open source I think www.sourceforge.net has php support.

Zacariaz · Post by **Zacariaz** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:30 pm

I think you should consider paying those 10-50$ a year. I doesnt have to be expensive, and you get so much more.

Anyway, i know severel good free hosts, but they are all danish so i dont supose they are of any interest to you

Kevin McGuire · Post by **Kevin McGuire** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:43 pm

Frank:
What did you have in mind to use PHP for? (I am just curious.)

frank · Post by **frank** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:44 pm

It isn't really about the hosting, It is more like I want to play around with php files and databases and such. Right now I am trying to set up an apache server on my computer and play around with php with that.

Frank:
What did you have in mind to use PHP for? (I am just curious.)

Just a learning experience.

Kevin McGuire · Post by **Kevin McGuire** » Wed May 23, 2007 6:55 pm

Frank:
Hmm.. By moving the magical need slider..

[tinkering....<*>.................................hosting]

And of course in agreement with your last post..

Sounds like you are in need of a unused computer to have setup for hosting a website. I assume you have a high speed internet connection and if I am correct then you might be able to be satisfied tinkering with that. Out of experience I would suggest not using such a setup for anything that you intend for others to access reliability unless you feel comfortable that you can keep things running smoothly for should I say twenty-four-seven?

Anyway it does sound like a solution to your tinkering desires at heart here apparently, and can provide a cheap showcase for your friends if you happen to make a neat gadget with PHP or something.

If you have slow internet connection then it might still meet your needs for tinkering, but I imagine not for hosting of any sort.

And if I could move forward to a interesting idea which would be to register for one of those dynamic sub domains that update automatically to reflect your current IP address for kicks and giggles.

frank · Post by **frank** » Wed May 23, 2007 7:18 pm

See this is where my problem exists, I have dial-up. So I am think that I am just going to set up a php server on my computer and keep it from accessing the internet and just look at my pages though http://localhost. I was just wondering if there were any good free web hosting sites with php support because I didn't know how hard it would be to set up said php server on my computer. But since I already have to apache server set up, i think I will just stick to keeping the pages on my computer and viewing them though localhost.

Zacariaz · Post by **Zacariaz** » Wed May 23, 2007 7:50 pm

if you are using windows and just want to play around with php and stuff, you should consider installing WAMP it provides apache, php and mysql in working order (usually).
http://www.wampserver.com/en/index.php

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Free Web Hosting?

Free Web Hosting?

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