Re: hosting - asking for advice

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 21:48:00 +0100,
Berényi Gábor <ber_(at)freemail(dot)hu> wrote:
> It's a Win98 machine.

That makes it trickier. I think it is possible to get it to install on
W98, but the FAT file system isn't safe. There were some messages discussing
this within the last couple of months. For just playing around the file
system problem shouldn't be a problem.

> Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> írta:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 21:19:34 +0100,
> > Berényi Gábor <ber_(at)freemail(dot)hu> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a dotgeek.org free account, but they are about to leave
> > > PostgreSQL for MySQL which is too bad. Can you suggest me a
> > > free/cheap PostgreSQL host where I can test an open-source
> program?
> > > No web hosting is needed, only a single database with TCP/IP
> access
> > > enabled, plus ability to load a C-language function to the server.
> There
> > > is also a list at http://techdocs.postgresql.org/hosting.php, but I
> have
> > > no time to study it, and want to hear your suggestion anyway.
> >
> > If you are just testing, why aren't you just using your desktop to host
> > the server?
> >
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