You can also set up a Node environment using Heroku for free: http://www.heroku.com/
I've been teaching myself using that as my playground and it's more than enough to build something meaningful. Heroku has detailed set up instructions for Node specifically. Cheers, Taneem On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Jeremy Darling <[email protected]>wrote: > Honestly, I didn't realize there was a free EC2 instance. Its been a few > years since I worked with EC2 but I do remember it was interesting. > > I had asked (on another board) about some type of node playground and > basically met with the "you need a dedicated server or EC2 instance" > answer. Not wanting to put out any fundage at this point I figured I'd > look into CGI hosting options instead. I already have hosting for other > sites and it seemed like a fit. > > I'll have to start some more googling around EC2 Micro and setting up > Node. Any links to step by step articles would be greatly appreciated :) > > - Jeremy > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Jeremy Darling <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> I realize the loss of async in the overall view and that it really isn't >>> ideal, but I'm just wanting to experiment a bit. I also realize it would >>> be like running PHP in CGI mode, you loose a lot, but at least you can play >>> with the language a bit in a web environment :) >> >> >> But why not just get an EC2 micro instance (for free) and play how it's >> supposed to be used? >> >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
