Recently, I have started using @home's cable modem service and I have no desire to return to dial-up. That means that my online Web programming course will no longer be available at its current address. I would prefer to find a more permanent spot for it. I don't want to use @home's Web hosting as for the course since CGI scripts are not permitted. I've been searching for a free Web hosting service and the only two that really looked interesting were the following:

• free.prohosting.com

  Looks fine, but runs Perl 5.0
  Does not allow telnet or SSH access.

• webprovider.com

  Ran into a few 500 server errors on their site, so I didn't feel terribly comfortable with it.
  Also, there wasn't much information about their services, so I couldn't really evaluate them.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Here's what I would ultimately prefer:

• Ability to run Perl/CGI scripts (at least 5.005_03 if not 5.6). I feel it would greatly improve the course if people could actually test some of the scripts that are presented.
• SSH access instead of telnet.
• No ads, but I realize that I may have to deal with them.
• Permanent. Some of the smaller free Web hosting services looked nice, but I'd rather not put the site someplace that only lasts a year or two. I'm willing to register a domain if someone here would be interested in hosting it. That would avoid the "time to update bookmarks again" problem.

Would any monks be willing to host the course? Currently, the site receives little traffic. You can check out the stats at this link (it tracks hits on the intro page (and my regular site's home page, so it only gives you a rough idea of the traffic). But who know? If this course becomes wildly popular -- and why wouldn't it? :) -- the traffic may increase considerably.

Cheers,
Ovid

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