From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2010-07-06T06:13:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Permanent script hosting ?

On Sunday, July 04, 2010 07:42:59 am Manu Cap wrote:
> Hello and thanks for your informations.
> 
> Indeed, I didn't specify what kind of hosting i needed sorry.
> In fact, I need my script to be run (as CGI) on a distant server.
> It's not rails, it's a handwritten custom script.
> 
> I don't use rails yet but I'll take note of Heroku ^^.

You don't need Rails. Sinatra would work. Any Rack-based framework would work. 
Just don't use raw CGI.

And if you can do that, depending what your script actually does, it might 
work well on appengine-jruby. That's the largest free host I could find. For 
comparison:

Heroku's free offering gives you a 5 meg database, but PostgreSQL is probably 
more familiar and easier to work with if you've used MySQL or something 
similar.

App Engine's free offering gives you a 1 _gigabyte_ database, but you have all 
the restrictions of app engine -- 30 seconds to respond or die, non-relational 
database, etc.