On 6 May 2011 20:07, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin@btinternet.com> wrote:

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.