Can anyone advice where can I get free Web hosting which provide MySQL and PHP development capability for learning purpose ? :quiet:

    I don't know of any free ones. GoDaddy's got a pretty good one for $4.95 per month.

      Try brinker. They often have random "educational" stuff

      EDIT: Brinkster, that is

        http://www.100webspace.com/freeplan.html

        *Absolutely FREE
*Data storage: 100 MB
*Monthly bandwidth: 3 GB
*Hosting for 1 domain
*5 subdomains
*Small banner

*Perl enabled
*PHP enabled
*1 MySQL database
*5 MB MySQL database storage
*PHPMyAdmin

          http://localhost/ offers a lot of freedom for practice and experimentation. Gigabytes of capacity, loads of bandwidth, and no time limits.

            😃 I used that host once...

            trap17.com is great and has tons of futures, free, no ads...

            The only thing, you must post for credits...But very very easy to get credits...Highly recommended 😉

              Just remember, nothing is truly free. Pay a small fee, like at vervehosting.com, and you've got a decent environment. Otherwise, put up with some ads and popups. Your only other option is WP's suggestion, of course, and then you give up accessing your site over the internet. However, if you are simply wanting to test and learn, then creating your own server on your local box is an excellent idea, since it's completely free, ad-free, and you have 100% control over your server settings (which is essential if you truly want to learn all the ins and outs of PHP/MySQL/Apache).

                Weedpacket wrote:

                http://localhost/ offers a lot of freedom for practice and experimentation. Gigabytes of capacity, loads of bandwidth, and no time limits.

                I absolutely LOVE the ease of use on this one.

                However, from my experience the admin can be a total dumb crap and screw things up on occassion. If you are patient, they usually iron out the rough patches.

                  Yeah... plus, my admin is a lazy bastard that lounges around watching reality television instead of working on the host server.

                    my admin doesn't even understand what's going on most of the time......

                      Mine does. Mines a genius 😃

                        Haha good, then I'll start contacting you on MSN for help. I heard that it's the best way to get in touch with you.

                          I'm not sure about mine - he seems to think the server's a place for him to store all his pr0n....

                            aaron_karp wrote:

                            Haha good, then I'll start contacting you on MSN for help. I heard that it's the best way to get in touch with you.

                            HA!

                            Really, Piers, what's the story with that anyway? Did you have a bad experience? 🙂

                              Yeah, someone wouldn't leave me alone on MSN... kept asking me questions about PHP. I don't mind random people starting to talk to me, but I'd rather they kept it social...

                                Plus, at http://www.eurodns.com/ you can get FREE .be domains (at least for the first year). No cc or anything needed...I just snapped up a bunch of stupid domains for future possible junk.

                                  Weedpacket wrote:

                                  http://localhost/ offers a lot of freedom for practice and experimentation. Gigabytes of capacity, loads of bandwidth, and no time limits.

                                  What about advertising 😕 it sounds too good to be true, like people using common sense and google 🙁

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