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Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting?

From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting?
Date	2016-12-29 19:40 -0500
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On 12/29/2016 1:52 PM, galt_57@hotmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at 7:47:35 PM UTC-6, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/28/2016 1:44 PM, Davej wrote:
>>> On December 28, 2016, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 12/27/2016 10:45 PM, Davej wrote:
>>>>> What are the lowest cost known-functional hosting services where
>>>>> a student might build a small Java-based website? I see that I
>>>>> can get a cheap VPS but it only offers a small amount of ram.
>>>>
>>>> Google App Engine would be obvious in my opinion.
>>>>
>>>> You can start for free and then pay for actual usage and
>>>> scale up if needed.
>>>
>>> Sounds interesting, but to a beginner the financial risk of
>>> demand-based billing is scary and undesirable. The only time
>>> I would see demand would be if the account was hacked or
>>> attacked.
>>
>> You can do a lot with the free quota. For just learning it should
>> be more than enough.
>>
>> And even if you start paying then it is not expensive.
>>
>>> Also the database seems rather crippled based on
>>> what is said here...
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_App_Engine
>>
>> For free you can use JPA.
>>
>> And in my opinion JPA would be rather obvious for learning.
>>
>> If you pay, then you can get a relational database (MySQL).
>> And again it is not that expensive.
>>
>> https://cloud.google.com/sql/
>
> Okay, I'll give it a try.

That is one of the good things about free. You can always try
it and you just hate it, then you just move on to something
else with little loss.

>                           VPS is too expensive if 4GB+ of
> RAM is necessary... approximately 10X compared to what I am
> used to paying for shared Php/.NET hosting.

Java EE likes memory.

But ASP.NET can also use some memory.

Arne

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Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? galt_57@hotmail.com - 2016-12-27 19:45 -0800
  Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-12-28 12:26 +0000
    Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-12-28 06:15 -0800
      Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-12-28 20:57 -0500
        Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-12-29 12:30 +0000
      Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-12-28 19:29 +0000
    Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Davej <galt_57@hotmail.com> - 2016-12-28 09:15 -0800
      Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-12-28 20:52 -0500
      Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-12-28 16:36 -0500
        Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-12-28 13:52 -0800
          Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? galt_57@hotmail.com - 2016-12-29 10:43 -0800
            Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-12-29 19:32 -0500
              Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-12-30 12:24 +0000
                Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-12-30 20:39 -0500
            Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-12-29 20:37 +0000
          Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-12-28 23:50 +0000
      Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2016-12-28 13:39 -0800
      Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-12-28 21:18 +0000
      Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2016-12-28 19:52 +0000
        Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? galt_57@hotmail.com - 2016-12-28 12:30 -0800
  Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-12-28 11:34 -0500
    Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? galt_57@hotmail.com - 2016-12-28 10:44 -0800
      Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-12-28 20:47 -0500
        Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-12-29 17:55 -0500
          Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? galt_57@hotmail.com - 2016-12-31 12:16 -0800
            Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-12-31 18:34 -0500
            Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-12-31 19:40 -0500
            Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2017-01-03 10:36 +0000
        Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-12-29 19:40 -0500
          Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2016-12-29 21:21 -0500
        Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? galt_57@hotmail.com - 2016-12-29 10:52 -0800
  Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Roedy Green <inquiry@mindprod.com> - 2017-01-05 21:49 -0800
  Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? matthew.townsend@gmail.com - 2017-01-13 14:24 -0800
    Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2017-01-13 19:53 -0500

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