[CLUE-Tech] Your own Slashdot Discussion

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jed S. Baer wrote:

> The question being, "How cheap is cheap", relative to other factors. I
> actually spent some time on freshmeat and sourceforge a few nights ago
> surveying blogware. Nearly anything with actual code released used a
> database backend. Now true, trying to do it with flat files would be a
> nightmare, but perhaps not for a very simple site. Regarding hosting
> providers, from what I've seen, MySQL access costs a bit more. I've been
> cogitating writing something that would handle a very simple
> implementation - more like a journal. Because of the file permission issue
> (as I understand it - using flat files), upload would still be via ftp or
> scp, not web-based. I guess code could be written to get around the issue
> of web-based file uploads. I just haven't gotten that far along yet.

Well, does $9.95 a month sound cheap enough? I get PHP/Perl/MySQL/POP
addresses -- plus a really simple Web-based admin system for my database,
email and such -- and you can request additional databases for no
extra charge.  250 MB disk space, and a pretty high data transfer
limit. (I've never hit it, so I can't quite remember what it is.)

phpwebhosting.com -- I highly recommend it. They're cheap, and provide
great service.

Take care,

Zonker
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