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General Discussion => Technology and Development => Web Programming and Design => Topic started by: trevmeister66 on February 18, 2007, 11:57:00 am

Title: Free web hosting
Post by: trevmeister66 on February 18, 2007, 11:57:00 am
Does anybody know of a good free web hosting site that has PHP and MySQL?
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: rivereye on February 18, 2007, 12:01:00 pm
define good, and what do you plan to do with it (not many offer a mail server, so you have an issue with forums).
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: trevmeister66 on February 18, 2007, 12:05:00 pm
i don't need an email thing. I want it to be easy to use (like for file managing, database managing, etc.) and a subdomain (or free domain if that's possible :)smile.gif) that isn't your 'username'. Also i would like it to not be slow. Thanks!
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: rivereye on February 18, 2007, 12:33:00 pm
good luck finding one that your username isn't the . as that is how they do it (makes things easier). Even when you pay, your domain name (or a part of it) is usually your username.
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: Halifax on February 18, 2007, 01:22:00 pm
Yeah trev I don't think you will get one that will give you a gree domain ;)wink.gif but if you want free hosting and PHP with MySQL then check out freehostia.com
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: bfr on February 18, 2007, 01:50:00 pm
Yeah.  Freehostia is pretty good.

There is also www.awardspace.com  
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: trevmeister66 on February 18, 2007, 01:54:00 pm
i know bravenet (or bravehost, whichever) lets you create your own subdomain, but it doesn't have php or mysql :(sad.gif

I'll check out freehostia and awardspace.
Thanks all!
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: rivereye on February 18, 2007, 03:14:00 pm
otherwise, if you know someone who has a domain, they might let you piggy back on their site (I used to offer that, now I take advantage of it).
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: trevmeister66 on February 18, 2007, 03:46:00 pm
Man awardspace is awsome. It's the best one i've tried so far (and believe me, i've tried a bunch).
Thanks for helping out guys.

@rivereye, do you know (My)SQL and how to use it?
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: rivereye on February 18, 2007, 03:55:00 pm
yeah, I know a good amount about it (hell, my CMS is based on MySQL, think I would know a little there about it).

btw, 1000 posts baby.
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: trevmeister66 on February 18, 2007, 03:55:00 pm
o, then could you help me out a bit (like teach me or tell me a good tutorial or something).

Congrats on 1000 posts too :)smile.gif
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: rivereye on February 18, 2007, 03:56:00 pm
thanks man. Yeah, I can do that (IM me tommorow or something).
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: trevmeister66 on February 18, 2007, 03:58:00 pm
k, i will. Thanks for all the help.
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: rivereye on February 18, 2007, 03:59:00 pm
btw, you will need a knowledge of php first.
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: tenniskid493 on February 18, 2007, 07:55:00 pm
good choice with awardspace...its one of the best free hosting providers out there (even though it is still a beta)...the only problem with it is that, atleast a few months ago, there is some frequent down time...most of it occurs very late at night though, so it shouldn't be much of a problem.  im not sure if this is still true or not, or it if was just when they were upgrading their servers

free hostia is also a nice choice

as to finiding a free domain, keep dreaming.  the only way to get "free" domains is to get one with a completely wierd ending like .tk or .co.nr and even those require ads/popups  .co.nr is probably the best because all it requires is a small image to be displayed on your homepage that links back to their site

http://www.php.net is a good reference for php/mysql.  If you have no experience with php programming, i wouldn't recomment trying to start right away with mysql.  You must first understand php before you can use sql...it is possible, but all you'd be doing is copying and pasting code that you completely don't understand, which in my opinion is pointless

if you need any help with php/mysql at all, just post a thread here, and we'll be sure to help you out
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: rivereye on February 19, 2007, 04:35:00 am
very true there TK. I have never had good luck on a free plan, but I know that if I decide to go pay again, I already know who I am going through.
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: trevmeister66 on February 19, 2007, 10:48:00 am
well, i'm pretty good with php, so i guess i'll try mysql. I've looked at w3schools.com and it seems pretty easy, but i want to know a bit more, like making a login thing that checks a table for if the input username is a member or not, and stuff like that.
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: rivereye on February 19, 2007, 11:18:00 am
it isn't all that bad really. The worst part of SQL really is planning the layout of your DBs and tables, not the data or how you access it.
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: bfr on February 19, 2007, 11:28:00 am
Yeah.  I imagine rivereye would know from experience (his forum).  
Title: Free web hosting
Post by: rivereye on February 19, 2007, 11:33:00 am
you can say that again, I have pages that approach over 12 SQL statements to do their job (a lot of tables to mess with).