On 6 May 2011 20:07, Andrew Coppin
OK, so strictly this is unrelated to Haskell as such. However, there's enough people doing webby stuff with Haskell that some of you must have wanted to run your code on a real, Internet-accessible web server. So does anybody have any suggestions on which companies offer the most favourable tools / pricing?
I currently have a website, but it supports only CGI *scripts* (i.e., Perl or PHP). It does not support arbitrary CGI *binaries*, which is what I'd want for Haskell. In fact, I don't have control over the web server at all; I just put content on there.
The same provider can offer me a virtual server, but at 3x the price I'm currently paying. I simply cannot afford that kind of money just for silly toy projects.
What does everybody else use?
Some suggestions: * Amazon C2. FREE hosting for a year, you can get SSH access and various Linux distributions. * Linode I use this with a Linux distribution Costs about $19USD, I guess, for 200GB bandwidth, 512MB memory, 16GB HD. * Other VPS-y things; RapidVPS hosts hpaste.org and tryhaskell.org which are FastCGI, about the same as Linode but half the price, and half as fast/responsive (for me) but reliable. I'd recommend Amazon in this case, you don't get much cheaper than free.