VMat has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

I wonder if anyone could recommend a free web hosting service that supports Perl CGI scripts and DBD::SQLite. I'd like to build a small (really small) web site that would query (or update) a little SQLite database. I don't want to mess around with MySQL or similar databases.

Thanks!

VMat

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Re: SQLite + free web hosting?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 11, 2009 at 03:40 UTC

    I don't want to mess around with MySQL or similar databases.

    That makes no sense. Since the host is the one that installs and maintains the server, there's no extra fussing needed for MySQL. All you have to do is create your tables, just as you do with SQLite.

    I wonder if anyone could recommend a free web hosting service that supports Perl CGI scripts and DBD::SQLite.

    Practically, all hosting services that support CGI support DBD::SQLite, since you can install it yourself.

      Hi Ikegami, thanks for your post.

      Well... I should have expressed myself more clearly - my apologies.

      Being more specific, what I do want is to be able to download my database and play with it anywhere (even in a smartphone, for example), or just back it up whenever I need - simple and quick. And what I do not want is to recreate everything in case I have to move to another server - I've heard free web hosting services are kind of... volatile, should I say? I'm not sure I can do that with MySQL (you're right, I have no experience with MySQL at all). Besides all that, I've been doing some work in SQLite, and I just love it.

      Now, about installing the module myself - looks like I've made a naive question, but I need to make another one: do they allow users to install Perl modules? Aren't there any security issues?

      Thanks again,

      VMat

        do they allow users to install Perl modules?

        I doubt they disabled the C compiler. And even if they did, you could compile the module on a similar machine and just upload the binaries.

        Aren't there any security issues?

        They already allow you to run arbitrary programs, so I'm not sure what you have in mind.