sites offering free webspace & Python scripting...?

[Alex Martelli]

I've looked in the FAQ's, but couldn't find this info...:

are there sites offering free web space, _and_ the
ability for the site maintainer to write Python
server-side scripts for the web pages?

(CGI would suffice, although, no doubt, faster ways
would be preferable).

I know of quite a few suppliers of free webspace that
offer no scripting whatsoever, and a few that allow
Perl scripting, but I'd really like to do my scripting in
Python instead (for reasons I'm sure I don't have to
explain on this newsgroup!-).

Thanks in advance for any response... my newsfeed
appears to be very flaky these days, so e-mail Cc's of
any posted responses would be highly appreciated.

Alex

[Manuel Gutierrez Algaba]

On Tue, 7 Dec 1999 16:17:07 +0100, Alex Martelli <al...@magenta.com> wrote:
>I've looked in the FAQ's, but couldn't find this info...:
>
>are there sites offering free web space, _and_ the
>ability for the site maintainer to write Python
>server-side scripts for the web pages?
>
>(CGI would suffice, although, no doubt, faster ways
>would be preferable).
>
>I know of quite a few suppliers of free webspace that
>offer no scripting whatsoever, and a few that allow
>Perl scripting, but I'd really like to do my scripting in

Which one offers free web space and *free Perl scripting* ?

--

[al...@magenta.com]

In article <slrn84r2e...@localhost.localdomain>,
irm...@ctv.es wrote:
[snip]

> >I know of quite a few suppliers of free webspace that
> >offer no scripting whatsoever, and a few that allow
> >Perl scripting, but I'd really like to do my scripting in
>
> Which one offers free web space and *free Perl scripting* ?

Hmmm, I guess hogging the info would be against the spirit
of this group, hn?-) Took me quite a bit of effort to find
out, but, here goes... -- here's a few that seem to work
pretty well:

http://www.virtualave.net
http://www.webhosting.com
http://www.prohosting.com
http://www.webjump.com

One of those (I forget which) doesn't even force you to show
their ads, although they do _ask_ it as a favour.

Maybe if we all now started lobbying them to suggest they
support Python too...:-)

Alex

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[Paul Boddie]

al...@magenta.com wrote:
>
> In article <slrn84r2e...@localhost.localdomain>,
> irm...@ctv.es wrote:
> >
> > Which one offers free web space and *free Perl scripting* ?

[...]

> http://www.virtualave.net
> http://www.webhosting.com
> http://www.prohosting.com
> http://www.webjump.com
>
> One of those (I forget which) doesn't even force you to show
> their ads, although they do _ask_ it as a favour.

That's http://www.prohosting.com, I think.

> Maybe if we all now started lobbying them to suggest they
> support Python too...:-)

Well, CGIPython might be a start. However, ProHosting runs BSD/OS and I don't
remember a binary being available for that on the CGIPython site. Perhaps
someone running BSD/OS (or BSDI as it's also known, apparently) would consider
contributing a CGIPython binary...

Paul

[Paul Boddie]

William Burrow wrote:

>
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999 16:43:31 +0100,
> Paul Boddie <pa...@infercor.no> wrote:
> >> One of those (I forget which) doesn't even force you to show
> >> their ads, although they do _ask_ it as a favour.
> >
> >That's http://www.prohosting.com, I think.
>

> What, you can get an account on prohosting nowadays?

Try http://free.prohosting.com - that address coming from an e-mail they sent me
two days ago. It took me a while to actually access my account when I originally
attempted to acquire one, but they did become more responsive later on.

Paul