One more thing to consider here is whether your host will allow you to run your own web server. For my free-host there is no way I can run external commands. Not even use a compiler. Unless I run them via a CGI but then the webserver monitors it and eventually kills it. So, it would be useful, definetely, to hear which of the non-CGI-based alternatives can work in such environments or even if someone knows of a free-host who supports, say, Mojolicious::Lite. Personally, if I had a commercial project which paid well and had control over the host, I would surely try the alternatives (despite having invested effort on building a CGI-based backend with templates). The good news, CGI or alternatives, the main underlying engine is Perl:

bw, bliako