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Re: GlassFish Hosting:

From: Edward Burns <edward.burns_at_oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 07:54:26 -0700

>>>>> On Tue, 28 May 2013 12:00:25 -0700, Edward Burns <edward.burns_at_oracle.com> said:

EB> On 14 May, Steven Van Impe wrote:
SVI> I'm currently teaching Java EE (using GlassFish) to undergraduate
SVI> students, and am struggling to find a suitable hosting
SVI> service. What I'm looking for is a hosting service that:

SVI> * is free, or at least offers a free account for one semester.

SVI> * is easy enough to use, so that students don't have to go through
SVI> me to deploy their apps.

SVI> * allows students to administer their own server through the web
SVI> interface (to set up resources, realms, \u2026).

SVI> * is up to date (I will be switching to GlassFish 4 for the next
SVI> semester ).

SVI> Can anyone recommend a hosting service ?

EB> Arun listed several options in a blog post from January 2011:

EB> https://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta/entry/totd_153_glassfish_hosting_options

EB> Unfortunately, none of them seem dollar cost free.

While this doesn't qualify as hosting in my book, I am forwarding a
response sent to me individually.

>>>>> On Wed, 29 May 2013 07:10:56 -0700, "emiddio" said:

EF> i use http://dyn.com/dns/ since summer 2009; it is free; i have glassfish
EF> running on home computer,
EF> port forwarding configured on my dsl router; hosts my personal website.

EF> it is free - but changed terms so now have to reply to an email 1/month to
EF> keep active.

Ed

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