Free Web Hosting for Facebook Applications
November 13, 2007
With the recent growth of and interest in Facebook applications, some Web hosting providers have begun to offer free hosting for Facebook applications. Although some developers have been weary of such opportunities, curious as to what the “catch” could be, others have been reporting positively about their experiences with such services, stating that the only catch is that the provider hopes to convert the trial user into a profitable paying user.
Disregarding the positive and negative standpoints of individual developers, the following is a compilation of free Web hosting opportunities that have been discovered across the Web. If you find any that have been left out, please contact us.
1. Joyent.com
- Trial Period: 1 Year
- Offer Expiration: Never
- Operating System: SUN Solaris
- Languages & Databases: PHP 5.2.4, PHP 4.4.7, Ruby 1.8.6 (Rails), Python 2.4.4, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite
News & Opinions:
- Free, Fast, and Scalable Hosting from Joyent (Facebook Developers News)
- Facebook Developers Get Free Hosting From Joyent (Information Week)
- Facebook Announces Partnership with Joyent (AllFacebook)
- Coming Soon, Free Hosting for Facebook Apps (GigaOM)
- Facebook + Joyent hosting partnership (Facebook Developers Forum)
View full Joyent.com details here. »
2. Jumpline.com
- Trial Period: 1 Year
- Offer Expiration: Never
- Operating System: RedHat Linux
- Languages & Databases: PHP 5.1.4, Perl 5.8.5, Python 2.4.3, MySQL 5.0.22, SQLite
News & Opinions:
- 6 Months FREE VDS Web Hosting for all FB Developers (Facebook Developers Forum)
View full Jumpline.com details here. »
3. FreeUnmeteredHost.com
- Trial Period: Forever
- Offer Expiration: Never
- Operating System: Unknown
- Languages & Databases: PHP 5, MySQL
News & Opinions:
- Free Hosting for Facebook Applications (AllFacebook)
- FreeUnmeteredHost.com, Unmetered BW, 12gb, php,mysql, ftp, 100mbps FREE!! (Facebook Developers Forum)
View full FreeUnmeteredHost.com details here. »
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This is great news as it really helps developers focus their efforts on their applications then to determine where to host them. It also is proof to the common claim that web hosting is a commodity (or is slowly turning out to be).
If you look at the offerings (Joyent and Jumpline specifically), VDS and VPS solutions seem to be more and more popular as web hosting options and are slowly rendering the common “shared hosting” plan obsolete as time passes.
for Joyent.com the OS is SUN Solaris
Thank you for the information, I’ve updated the article accordingly.
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There is another free web hosting for facebook applications at hostFB.com. Moveover, I’ve found a collection of premium facebook templates on their site.
You can use 1and1 tbh, cheapest shared host that comes with SSL out of box:
http://blog.woodylabs.com/2011/08/hosting-facebook-appsapplicationsiframe-pages-on-1and1-ssl/
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