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Re: [LUG] Cheap GNU/Linux Hosting Wanted



On Monday 17 Nov 2003 4:38 pm, Matt Lee wrote:
> Hi, I'm looking for some real cheap hosting, for a particular project, as
> my current host doesn't support NetPBM, which I need to install Gallery

This is very similar to my problem with isbnsearch and Net::Z3950 which rely 
on a C toolkit. Finding a webhost who will offer extras like this is hard - 
finding a cheap one is a tad miraculous? Even when you do, (I used 
Purple-Paw.com based in the US), when they do some arbitrary system 
maintenance, it can trash the config and the whole site stops working. (Just 
happened to me, the site was operating but not searching for a day. In both 
cases, the HTML would be the only part working.)

My solution is to test compilation of the C code using a prefix, patch the 
Perl to accept the prefix and upload the lot to user webspace.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/netpbm/
 Programming Language: C, Perl, Unix Shell

So it should be possible. 

Alternatively, search for a webhost that offers PHPSane:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/netpbm/?topic_id=100
Projects depending on this project (Total: 15):
 transfig (required) 
 cthumb (Default branch) (required) 
 TkVoice (optional) 
 phpSANE (required) 
 Pathalizer (required) 
 

> matt lee
> Webmaster, Free Software Foundation
> <http://www.fsf.org/>

Didn't know that! Well done on a nicely valid and readable site.
Looks excellent in Lynx!
How long have you been doing that?

-- 

Neil Williams
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