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Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by pilif »

I'm maybe cynical here, but this service will go away within a year. And it won't be because of too high direct costs for the host. It will be because of too much hassle.

When you do something like this these days, you only attract trouble (and a very few well-meaning people): spammers, script-kiddies, pirates looking for cheap storage or seedboxes and hacker groups valuing the anonymity for their releases which in turn will attract DoS attacks which will be a huge hassle for the provider to deal with.

So within a year, you won't only have to deal with too many users taking too many resources, you will also have to deal with annoyed providers, with law enforcement constantly asking for data you can't provide and of course with constant DMCA takedown requests.

And that's why we can't have nice things any more :/

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by jakebellacera »

pilif wrote: post #61

I'm maybe cynical here, but this service will go away within a year. And it won't be because of too high direct costs for the host. It will be because of too much hassle. When you do something like this these days, you only attract trouble (and a very few well-meaning people): spammers, script-kiddies, pirates looking for cheap storage or seedboxes and hacker groups valuing the anonymity for their releases which in t…

Well it looks like they have an approval process so I feel that they can easily ban users that abuse their service. With that said, I'm sure that's an issue they will have to eventually face, but that is the liability that all hosting companies have.

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by chrishan »

n3bu wrote: post #35
rdevnull wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mostly for our limited knowledge of python but we could certainly add it in the future if there is some interest ! While there is no official support we want to be able to fix things if they do not work. This said I had a look last night and we could probably add it soon as it seems simple enough

+1 for python support

+1

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by PixelRobot »

n3bu wrote: post #35
rdevnull wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mostly for our limited knowledge of python but we could certainly add it in the future if there is some interest ! While there is no official support we want to be able to fix things if they do not work. This said I had a look last night and we could probably add it soon as it seems simple enough

+1 for python support

+1

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

#65

Post by USNetizen »

When are you going to support some enterprise-grade technologies like Python and PostgreSQL? Sure, those tools you have now are great for hobbyists and part-time hackers (with maybe the exception of Ruby), but a real dev sandbox should have some better tools to work with. Take Google for instance, they chose Java and Python.

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by USNetizen »

rdevnull wrote: post #54
adlpz wrote: post #20

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Please, do! The python community in web development is definitely a big one and we don't want to miss on the fun :).

would mod_wsgi + django be enough or is something else needed ?

Django is a definite must have. People are finally starting to see the value in it and its powering some of the most heavily trafficked sites on the internet today (e.g. Pinterest, Instagram, etc.). Plus, the GIS tools in Django/PostgreSQL are unrivaled in open source offerings and beat some commercial ones even.

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by rdevnull »

pilif wrote: post #61

I'm maybe cynical here, but this service will go away within a year. And it won't be because of too high direct costs for the host. It will be because of too much hassle. When you do something like this these days, you only attract trouble (and a very few well-meaning people): spammers, script-kiddies, pirates looking for cheap storage or seedboxes and hacker groups valuing the anonymity for their releases which in t…

granted is not easy but "you only attract trouble (and a very few well-meaning people): spammers, script-kiddies, pirates" to give a bit of credit to the HN community most of the applicants were, in my opinion, well-meaning people ranging from students in College to developers looking for another playground. Most of the things loved by spammers (e.g. emails via localhost, remote connections) are not allowed so I don't think it would be so interesting to trouble makers. For storage there are so many free solutions that I doubt that anyone would even bother with this but...you have a good point and we are doing our best to keep the trouble makers away and monitor the system with a fast kickban action when needed ;)

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by rdevnull »

yahelc wrote: post #25
rdevnull wrote: post #14

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Hello Mdasen ! thanks for your comment and the very good questions. To start with a quick answer: "Would you be able to offer the service if you had to spend $1,000/mo?" Yes :) At the moment we have 3 servers and we are far from full capacity. Of course nothing can scale to the infinite but, from what I could observe, there are always people coming and going. We do have bigger hard disks than 128 gb so the quota in a…

Minor copywriting note: The autoresponder email says "your hosting space request is now under approval.", instead of "under review".

fixed now thanks again for spotting this

Re: Ruby, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Free Hosting for geeks

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Post by rdevnull »

USNetizen wrote: post #65

When are you going to support some enterprise-grade technologies like Python and PostgreSQL? Sure, those tools you have now are great for hobbyists and part-time hackers (with maybe the exception of Ruby), but a real dev sandbox should have some better tools to work with. Take Google for instance, they chose Java and Python.

well mysql is used by google and twitter too so I don't really see them as hobbyists only (+ we use it daily for business and not just for an hobby). Python support is in the cards and we are just looking at it right now. BUT again this is not an enterprise-grade service and really not comparable to google. But thanks for your input - this clearly isn't for everyone but can be useful to many.
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