your students might also consider signing up for Amazon AWS - if this is
their first sign-up, they receive a free 1-year micro instance. I
previously had GF running on there, may need a little tuning given the
limited RAM. Just as long as they shut down the micro instance by the end
of the year, they won't pay anything.
Would also give them some exposure to AWS/cloud provisioning =)
Regards,
S
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Edward Burns <edward.burns_at_oracle.com>wrote:
> >>>>> 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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>