Re: FREE hosting platforms with PostgreSQL, Java SDK, Tomcat, ecc.? - Mailing list pgsql-general

Open Source is about sharing ideas and source code that has no cost in
copying as soon as it is once invented. The link you are providing is
the same thing. All information about the chip is open. But that doesn't
mean that anyone will send you a chip for free.

To host a project on the web needs resourses like electric power,
computor hardware, cooling hardware for the server room. Server rooms,
people willing to get out of bed in the middle of the night to fix a
problem to keep up the up time and so on. Those resourses is not
possible to just copy for free. Those resourses are bound to the service
you get and not just to the idea about the service.

There is something else to note. The open sourse software also cost a
lot to develop. The idea is just that if a lot of people share what they
develop for their costumers or for their own sake that will gain the
development for everybody. But it is still a cost someone have to take
in terms of time or paying a developer.

So, I think the seeking for free in terms of no cost is quite provoking
on a list like this. Open Source is about sharing ideas not giving
things away for free. That is just a great side effect that what can be
copied without cost is shared without cost.

But so fare there is no technology to copy the hardware, server rooms,
internet bandwidth and so on for no cost.


Regards

Nicklas Avén



On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 15:49 +0200, Fernando Pianegiani wrote:
> Thak you Antonio.
>
> After open source for the software, we will wait for open resource for
> the hardware (this is just a first example http://www.arduino.cc/,
> even if of different nature).
>
> I need to eat too, for this reason I cannot pay for an hosting
> platform after that my funded research project ended.
>
> Fernando
>
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Antonio Goméz Soto
> <antonio.gomez.soto@gmail.com> wrote:
>         Well,
>
>         I am from the hosting business, and can assure you, what you
>         are looking for does not exist.
>         This configuration requires specialists on the provider side,
>         which are expensive. They
>         need to eat too.
>
>         And history teaches, that even if it would exist, you should
>         not put anything meaningful on it,
>         because they surely will go out of business soon.
>
>         Antonio.
>
>
>         Op 06-08-11 10:02, Fernando Pianegiani schreef:
>
>
>                 Hello,
>
>                 do you know any FREE hosting platforms where
>                 PostgreSQL, Java SDK, Tomcat (or other web servers)
>                 can be already found installed or where they can be
>                 installed from scratch? In possible, it would be
>                 better if the PostgreSQL be directly accessible by my
>                 servlet, without any web service/PHP script in the
>                 middle.
>
>                 Thank you very much in advance.
>
>                 Kind regards.
>
>                 Fernando Pianegiani
>
>