Good low cost web hosting

[Modern Times]

I use one.com. You get 25Gb disk space for 2,40 € /month.

They've repied that cgi is not supported on their servers, so I can rule this one out.

[Jesse Gersenson]

Google Compute offers a "free" entry-level hosting plan, called the f1-micro, which has 600mb ram and a 30 gb disk, 1gb of bandwidth (which they call 'egrees' and which costs $0.12/gb).

Off-load your downloads someplace else and you'd have free hosting. Also you would want to enable gzip compression to save bandwidth. For example, this page http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/40 ... t_all.html is 1.7 MB; gzipped it is 134 KB and its style.css is 24 KB instead of 3 KB.

It is another VPS, virtual private server, which means you get a command line and can install and configure whatever you want.

You can PM me if you need help with any of this.

[Modern Times]

I use iPage and InMotion Hosting right now for my business, and I think InMotion is better in every way. You should check it out.

several days later InMotion have not replied to my query about cgi scripting, so that doesn't bode well for them. Still looking at the various options.

[nabildanial]

I use iPage and InMotion Hosting right now for my business, and I think InMotion is better in every way. You should check it out.

several days later InMotion have not replied to my query about cgi scripting, so that doesn't bode well for them. Still looking at the various options.

They have support chat that replies instantly (icon on the top right). You should probably use that one instead of emailing.

[Rebel]

several days later InMotion have not replied to my query about cgi scripting, so that doesn't bode well for them. Still looking at the various options.

What for do you need cgi? I am pretty sure providers did not drop it when they don't offer a similar and better alternative.

[Modern Times]

Web pages are generated on-the-fly, for example when you click on an engine to see what opponents it has played you are running a cgi script

[Rebel]

Web pages are generated on-the-fly, for example when you click on an engine to see what opponents it has played you are running a cgi script

Well, maybe you should check these guys again because they do support CGI, see the old programmer code page.

http://www.top-5000.nl/programmer_code.htm

And look at the source code:

Code: Select all

<FORM onsubmit="return checkbox_checker()" method=post name=checkbox_form action=/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl sab="3910" abp="3893">
<INPUT type=hidden value=rebel777@top-5000.nl name=recipient sab="3911" abp="3894"> 
<INPUT type=hidden value="Programmer code" name=subject sab="3912" abp="3895"> 
<INPUT type=hidden value=http://www.top-5000.nl/thankyou.htm name=redirect sab="3913" abp="3896"> 

See: action=/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl

[Ras]

Well, maybe you should check these guys again because they do support CGI

Signing up with a hoster who doesn't even know what runs on his servers.. what could possibly go wrong?

[Rebel]

Well, maybe you should check these guys again because they do support CGI

Signing up with a hoster who doesn't even know what runs on his servers.. what could possibly go wrong?

Reminds of calling the helpdesk of an earlier (not one.com) provider with the complaint I had no internet access. After the lot of questions I had to answer first he finally said - I can't help you, please sent us an email.

[Modern Times]

Hilarious !

Anyway, thanks for all the suggestions. We are currenty trialling this company:

https://www.tmdhosting.com/about-us.html