Free Web Host

With PHP Support?

[Luke1986]

Hi Everyone,

Does anyone know a decent free host with PHP/CGI/Perl support? I want to use it to try out the scripts I have.

[oilman]

see your StickyMail.

Good luck with the perl.

[Luke1986]

Thanks Oilman,

Thanks for the URLs. And thanks for the good luck, I've found that this forum is very encouraging.

[retro]

Luke

Did you find a decent freebie service in the end???? am looking for similar myself

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[oilman]

retro - I sent you the some info via stickymail - click the link at the top of the page.

Welcome to wmw.

[retro]

thanks for that oil

gives me chance to have a tinker with php prior to coughing up the ££ for an upgrade to my hosting account!!

[caine]

oilman, is there any chance of letting me have it.

cheers

caine

[oilman]

I've been sending this stuff via stickymail but it seems that I'll be doing that all day now that I've started. :)

Generally we avoid posting this kind of stuff because of the who's better than who posts and the rash of 'advertising' that often crops up.

That said, I'm going to break with tradition and risk a hand slap from my fellow mods and post my stickymail correspondence here:

you might want to have a peek at hostiva.com/products.htm - they aren't free but for only $2.95 per month they might as well be. They aren't taking new clients right now but I imagine that will change soon.

There's also webstrikesolutions.com - free for the first year and $84 per year after that but you can cancel at the end of the first year if you like.

There's also good old hypermart.net. They run a banner ad for the freebie stuff but if it's just you testing some scripts and learning then that shouldn't be a big deal.

[mack]

f2s are pretty good....not a lot of space but they do suport cgi and php ,, have perl installed and also support for mysql then also have no adverts (at all) on your pages...

www.f2s.com

[Luke1986]

Hi Everyone,

I have been checking f2s.com for weeks to sign up but they are still full!

[guysmy]

Have a look at freehostspace.com

I know they support php, 30 megs to tinker with, and optional MySQL for $3 a month.

Also have a peek at 100best-free-web-space.com

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[john316]

>>Does anyone know a decent free host with PHP/CGI/Perl support? I want to use it to try out the scripts I have. <<

There is another alternative to free webhosting and that is installing apache,mysql,perl and php on your machine and doing all of your testing locally without the hassle of "upload and wait and upload and wait".

I found this package the other day and it installs the server environment on a windows machine in about 5 minutes (I finally found a use for my windoze box)..you don't need any hosting, the server runs as localhost.

here is the link.

www.firepages.com.au/devindex.htm

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[ggrot]

That link is great. I've been wanting to install the whole thing for awhile now, but never had the time to find *all* the binaries from different websites and figure out how to install everything so it works together. Hopefully this'll do the trick. You might also consider downloading the php ide, at phpide.com I think. Its decent, kinda like the Visual Studio Interface, but with a few bugs.