in reply to SQLite + free web hosting?

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.

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Re^2: SQLite + free web hosting?
by VMat (Novice) on Apr 12, 2009 at 15:13 UTC
    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
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      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.

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


        I really have no experience with web servers, so I may be talking nonsense, but if I owned one, I believe I would give no permissions for outsiders to write in any directories under perl's. Isn't that the case?

        Thanks,

        VMat
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