Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Inexpensive JSP/Servlet hosting? Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 19:40:19 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: <7a283c8d-1038-4bcf-95d8-bf5e74ccf756@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:36150 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