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Perl for Web Site Management
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Perl for Web Site Management

by John Callender
October 2001
Beginner content levelBeginner
528 pages
15h 20m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Web Hosting Alternatives

The following is a rough hierarchy of web hosting alternatives, arranged from lowest cost (and capabilities) to highest.

Free Hosting

A number of providers offer free web space in return for things like the ability to run ad banners on your site. While they may be suitable for a low-end site, such arrangements are unlikely to offer things like shell access, CGI scripting, or server-side includes. Most also limit disk space fairly severely, requiring you to pay if you want to use more. For the examples in this book, such free web hosts probably will not be sufficient.

Shared Hosting (Low Grade)

Many Internet providers offer personal web space as part of a basic dial-up access package. Others offer relatively inexpensive web hosting without dial-up access. Although most of these providers do not include shell access or CGI scripting/server-side includes as part of the basic package, some do. An account with such a provider would probably be a good choice for someone on a strict budget looking to practice the examples in this book. With some searching, you can find providers that offer this level of access for $20 to $30 per month. For a site that represents a hobby, or a nonprofit community service project, or a demo of something you hope to turn into a commercial site later on, this may be sufficient—but be aware that things like load, reliability, and bandwidth can come back to haunt you.

Shared Hosting (High Grade)

For a cost ranging from $50 per month to ...

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