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wangdp123
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Hi there,
I am wondering if there are any free space/services for hosting a LAMP (Linux+Apache+Mysql+PHP) -based bioinformatics database or webserver for a relatively long time?
Thank you,
Tom
Free server + longtime support = oxymoron
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Hello,
I have added a word to indicate that the database means bioinformatics related database. I would like to have some space with Linux environment and other basic software support to develop some bioinformatics databases.
Thanks,
Tom
Hi Tom,
I'd like to give you my suggestion as the same question had just troubled me several weeks ago.
I have tried Godaddy, Alibaba cloud, iPage, Amazon AWS, Amazon lightsail. It seems impossible to find a long time supported free LAMP server.
If you only need to host static website, good news for you, AWS S3 storage is always free.
For LAMP, however, there is a workaround for you. Apply an Amazon EC2 virtual machine (free tier). You can freely use it for 1 year. Then you re-apply a new account 1 year later and re-deploy a new virtual machine. And then, you repeat this procedure every year.
Hope this would be helpful.
Hi, I concur with Devon that this is not a bioinformatics specific question, as it has nothing that makes it specific to bioinformatics. The question can be resolved by googling for "Free hosting online service for large data" or better "free IaaS" or "free PaaS", which as others have stated has no solution in reality. "Free" is not a good descriptor of a service in a professional context anyway, there is no free lunch, even more so there is no free electricity, hardware, work-force.
I think this question fit's better for the 'open-ended' discussion type of forum like Quora: like this one: https://www.quora.com/What-PaaS-IaaS-provider-offers-free-and-an-unlimited-number-of-virtual-machines-boxes-Linux-containers
There are also some alternatives listed there.
If you want to make something at production grade, I think you should convince your institution to support it financially.
Sourceforge has provided free LAMP services for many years. Setting it up is non-trivial. I guess that is why few are using it.
This isn't free, but it's close. You can get a VPS (basically a private server) from Linode or DigitalOcean (or many other less reputable companies) for $5 a month. Unless you have millions of users, even the bottom tier can support a relatively simple LAMP app. Since it works like a normal server, you can do a lot of other stuff on it as well.