Neftren
2011-09-23, 01:38 PM
So I started putting together a small site for personal reasons, and to get some experience with HTML5. In my infinite (read: stupid idea) wisdom, I registered a domain through Google, for $10/Year, which is a good deal, and then went "oh @#*%!", I don't have webspace! So of course, I spend half an hour running around the place looking at options, and decided to stay as much as possible on Google's platform, so I registered a site on Google's App Engine, and got all the DNS redirects working. It's really a nice platform in terms of network scaling, and it's built work with Java and Python. It's built to work with Java and Python.
So, I got to the point where I went, "Crap, Google App Engine has none of the LAMP infrastructure?!" I arrived at this conclusion after trying to install PHPBB3 and realized that their (Google's) server didn't have FTP Access (well, it's indirect FTP access in that I can only upload new files), does not support PHP, and does not support MySQL. I managed to solve the PHP problem with Quercus, but I'm still stumped on the PHP part.
I've gotten to the point where I think I'll need to look outside of Google's realm of expertise. I'm mostly looking to setup PHPBB3 with some form of CMS attached to it (or preferably, vBulletin if I can find a free host), with a decent level of manual site design. So I'm currently either looking for a webhost that supports LAMP, or I register a free PHPBB3 forum from a host and then use DNS redirects (at the cost of less control). Thoughts?
So, I got to the point where I went, "Crap, Google App Engine has none of the LAMP infrastructure?!" I arrived at this conclusion after trying to install PHPBB3 and realized that their (Google's) server didn't have FTP Access (well, it's indirect FTP access in that I can only upload new files), does not support PHP, and does not support MySQL. I managed to solve the PHP problem with Quercus, but I'm still stumped on the PHP part.
I've gotten to the point where I think I'll need to look outside of Google's realm of expertise. I'm mostly looking to setup PHPBB3 with some form of CMS attached to it (or preferably, vBulletin if I can find a free host), with a decent level of manual site design. So I'm currently either looking for a webhost that supports LAMP, or I register a free PHPBB3 forum from a host and then use DNS redirects (at the cost of less control). Thoughts?