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Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting?

From	Chris Stefanich <stefanich@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting?
Date	2012-03-23 13:45 -0700
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On Monday, March 19, 2012 12:59:00 PM UTC-4, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> I've been working on my AT-Robots program
> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/at-robots2-j/>, and I'm getting ready 
> to create a "Tournament Server" for it.  Basically, what that means is a 
> webapp where someone can upload their robot definitions to compete 
> against the others that have already been uploaded.  I think this is a 
> necessary next step in order to start building a community around my 
> project, but I don't really have excess capital to spend on an otherwise 
> free project.
> 
> I do have my own personal "server", but it lives in my house and isn't 
> very "stable".  I've also looked into nosupportlinuxhosting.com, and 
> while I can get Java to start up with a *lot* of finagling, it doesn't 
> seem likely to be useful to me as a host for this kind of work.
> 
> Just thinking out loud here, maybe the free (for a year) Micro Instance 
> in EC2 is the way to go, but I don't know if that's "big" enough for a 
> Java web-app. Anyone have experience with that?
> 
> Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated. I'm looking to spend < $5/mo 
> if possible.  At this point traffic will be fairly minimal, and free is 
> best, but it has to work well enough when it is used.  I'm not concerned 
> about scalability at first, since when I do need to scale, I'll probably 
> be able to monetize at least a little and use that to pay for a real host.
> 
> Thanks everyone,
> Daniel.

Have you looked into Heroku?

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Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-03-19 09:59 -0700
  Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-03-19 10:06 -0700
    Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-03-19 11:04 -0700
      Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-03-19 11:21 -0700
        Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-03-19 12:07 -0700
          Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-19 20:46 +0100
            Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-03-19 21:01 +0100
        Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-19 21:34 -0400
          Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-03-19 18:56 -0700
            Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-19 22:03 -0400
              Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-03-19 19:25 -0700
                Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-03-19 21:26 -0700
                Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-20 10:14 -0700
                Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-20 19:53 -0400
                Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-20 19:49 -0400
                Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? markspace <-@.> - 2012-03-20 18:05 -0700
                Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-20 21:16 -0400
  Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> - 2012-03-19 10:10 -0700
  Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-19 21:35 -0400
  Re: Where to find decent free or cheap Java hosting? Chris Stefanich <stefanich@gmail.com> - 2012-03-23 13:45 -0700

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