ColdFusion runs great on Amazon EC2 micro-instances. The only catch is that they are only available for Linux, which can be a bit daunting for some. We should be rolling out some pre-configured EC2 images w/ ColdFusion soon.
If you are new to Amazon EC2, you can even get the first year for FREE! http://aws.amazon.com/free/ -Adam On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Gerald Guido <[email protected]>wrote: > > >>Do you have broadband at home? > > Yeah, what AJ said. > > If you have a spare box with a gig of ram you can easily run an Open Source > CFML stack. I have hosted sites from home during dire straits. > > Another freebie is Amazon's free tier. If you are handy with Linux you can > get a micro instance up and running for free (for one year at least). > > http://aws.amazon.com/free/ > > ACF is a tight squeeze but Railo or OBD would have no problem running on a > micro instance. I have a biotch/dev box running right now and it is plenty > happy with the 613 megs of ram. > > HTH > G! > > > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:37 PM, AJ Mercer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Do you have broadband at home? > > > > I run my free OS website from home > > Ubuntu/Railo/Tomcat/mySQL/mangoBlog > > > > On 25 November 2010 02:03, Matthew Lowrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello Fellow HoFer's: > > > > > > Because of the economy and me being out of work until this year for > > almost > > > 2 years I had to let my personal website hosted by GoDaddy go the way > of > > the > > > buffalo. I was basically using it to work on a home project of > building > > a > > > family tree program. I was doing it for fun and for using new skills I > > have > > > learned at work and school. Plus, it would give me a chance to take > all > > my > > > family's (and wife's family's) information on the web to share with > > family > > > members and our kids when they get old enough to be interested in. > > > > > > I was hopping to find a place where I could host my ColdFusion code > while > > > building this project (basically from scratch) for free. I know this > is > > > almost impossible but it couldn't hurt to ask and google. > > > > > > I found one place: http://www.cfmldeveloper.com/ but it's out of > country > > > (USA) which, I don't have a problem with, but at the same time I'm > > hesitant > > > to just go anywhere with the way the world is today. Do any of you > have > > any > > > recommendations? Even if they aren't for free, I'm curious your > thoughts > > on > > > this subject. > > > > > > GoDaddy.com has been a great service and very reasonable, I just can't > > > afford to go back right now. > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:339553 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
