as you know we did pioneer the free hosting for programmers back in 2003. We are considering opening a new free cloud hosting solution for programmers. This will include 1 GB of space and access to both PHP, MySQL 5.6, Perl Python and perhaps other packages (nosql ? ROR)?
The free hosting would be restricted to programmers for hosting sample codes, scripts etc. and to participate in our upcoming competitions.
We would very much welcome your input on these points:
a) Would such a free hosting be attractive to you? why?
b) If yes which options would you like to be part of this free hosting package?
Please post a comment below if you are interested in the 1GB Free Hosting
MySQL 5.6 is the fastest MySQL I've ever seen till this day. It has a lot of optimizations. On the same machine 5.6 vs 5.1 would get amost 10x speed with innodb ( mostly because it has the new innodb plugin ). I also found it to be faster then 5.5.
Yeah it's not stable but we like trying new things and living on the edge a bit :)
definitely you should provide .most of the normal hosting providers dont support python,perl and all.so it will be beneficial for the programmers to host the code and try.
Hello Romero, yes this will be available soon. We will contact you as soon as the application system is up so you can apply for the free hosting :) Best Regards David