Advice of cheap/free online server

Rodney Green green.rodney at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 18:07:27 EDT 2014


Have you looked at the back-end as a service offerings such as parse.com?
They have a free level.


On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com>wrote:

> Nakia Brewer wrote:
>
> > I want to learn how to use LC server scripts (try and improve my
> > knowledge and progress my learning) but currently don't have access
> > to a web-server.
> >
> > Can some offer some advice for cheap (best free) web server space
> > that I could use to do some testing..
>
> The best server for learning is also the cheapest:  an old PC you've
> retired sitting in your garage.
>
> If you have a computer you're not using, just about any x86 made in the
> last several years will run Linux/Apache/MySQL/LiveCode Server just fine.
>
> All the software you need is free.
>
> I like Ubuntu Server myself, since the size of the community makes it very
> easy to find help for.
>
> With a test server in your own office you have the freedom to explore
> without having to worry about disrupting dozens of other users on a shared
> host.
>
> You'll have to learn a bit more, but that's the reason you want to do this
> anyway, yes?  The things you'll learn will definitely be very valuable no
> matter what type of hosting you later use for deployment.
>
> And with your own computer you can have something no hosted server can
> provide:  a GUI.
>
> On older machines Lubuntu runs very well.  I use it on my development
> server, along with Apache, ownCloud, and other goodies.
>
> I've learned a lot in the process, and it's paid off well with the sites I
> host on publicly-accessible servers.
>
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