On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 06:13 -0800, Daniel Mikusa wrote: > On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 05:52 -0800, Rhino wrote: > > I'm wondering if anyone can tell me of anywhere that has free Tomcat > > hosting? > > > > I'd like to make a small number of Tomcat servlets and JSPs available as > > part of a code portfolio to show prospective clients and/or employers. > > Presumably, these would get very little use, just the occasional glance > > from someone who wanted to see an example of my work. I don't want to > > leave my own computer running 24x7 and I can't afford to pay for hosting > > at this point, although that may change down the road. > > > > I've seen plenty of free hosting services that offer things like MySQL > > or blogging but I haven't found any yet that offer Tomcat. > > > > Can anyone point me to some free Tomcat hosting? > > > > Amazon has a "free" tier of AWS. > > https://aws.amazon.com/free/ > > I believe remains free for the first year. I've not used it myself, but > I believe you can run Tomcat on it. > > > There are also free PAAS solutions like > > http://cloudfoundry.com/ > https://openshift.redhat.com/app/ > http://jelastic.com/
I should have mentioned that with these services you don't necessarily have Tomcat hosting your application. Rather you just deploy your application to an anonymous servlet container which is managed for you. > > Dan >
