Mycgiserver.com, which provides free entry-level J2EE hosting to over 26,000 members, has avoided the need to shutdown. Javalobby.org will support the struggling service, which joins its growing Java developer advocacy network. Horst Reiterer will continue to run Mycgiserver.com, and all are invited to particpate in helping expand its offerings.

Last year, when the largest Java blogging service was risking shutdown, Javalobby was able to help it achieve stability and become more successful. JRoller.com has since grown by over 500% and is the thriving home of some of the most popular Java webloggers. With your support, mycgiserver.com can be a similarly beneficial resource to the global Java developer community.

Read Horst G. Reiterer's original letter

Rick Ross on the subject

I'm guessing the first thing they'll do is change the name to myJserver.com... ;-)

Why doesn`t SUN offer free J2EE Webhosting ?

But it will be "myjavaserver.com" instead.

Rick

See what happened is - Sun decided to fire all its American programmers, as did the rest of the AMreican companies, so no one has any money to buy anything anymore (H1Bs and L1s wisely send their money home where its value immediately 10x-es) so now that everyone is broke, there's no money in the economy, see? And since ther'es no money in teh economy, Sun has no money either-- no one is buying anything....so they can't afford anything liekn "free services"

Did I clear that up for you?

I think now they are "theserversided" and will refuse hosting services due to large number of applicants :)

While it certainly is in the midst of a conversion, the service has as much room to grow as it wants and we'll be accepting all applications for the free accounts :)

-Matt

In the registration page it says : We are not accepting any more users !
I would like to register, and use this service.

Jitender,

Thanks for your interest in the service! Signing up is currently not possible because a migration to new servers is in progress, I'll do my best to complete the migration as rapidly as possible. Once done, we'll open the service for new users again and of course, we'll be very happy to welcome you on board of the new community which is now becoming part of Javalobby.

Horst.

Horst:

Hosting Java can be an expensive operation. Both in terms of server resources, particularly memory. And in support costs. The latter because Java setups are invariably more complex than 'regular' hosting environments. And that results in higher support hits (at least in my experience).

That you can provide this service for 24 Euros a year is a fantastic achievement. Congratuations to you.

Your offering will be a great driver of server side Java popularity.

Regards, Peter,
RimuHosting.com - J2EE Hosting on Linux Virtual Private Servers

I totally agree that we need this kind of free services to be up and running. Testing a product in a real production environment is great.

I wonder why the 'big' application commercial servers makers (Weblogic, Websphere, Sun, Oracle) didn't give this type of free service on their own app servers. It will be great to have my J2EE application to be tested on all these and also to be up and running for a while somewhere on the web. All this should be just for non-comercial products. In case of setting a production product, something should be paid.

Also, a connectivity with a free database server from Oracle will be great from the app srv services.

The web page does not advertise J2EE hosting services. It says it provides a "J2SE 1.4 based application server". Sounds like Tomcat or Jetty?

While its not totally J2EE (EJB, JMS), it is servlets, JSPs, JDBC, etc. myjavaserver.com aims to provide a place for Java server-side newbies to cut their teeth on web-tier technology including database access. If you need full J2EE support, we'll hopefully we working out some deals with larger full-service hosting companies for you to "graduate" to.

It currently provides Servlets and JSP etc. on JDK 1.4.1 plus the list below. The goal is to provide full J2EE 1.3 and probably 1.4.

It's a damn good service, I've used it on and off for a few years now and it's very reliable. I don't use it now because I have access to a number of other machines but I will be chipping in to help, I got an email from Horst a few days ago and services like this just can't be left to die. Horst has used his own money to keep it going and the odd Euro from everyone using it will go a long way to buying memory, CPUs and disk space.

The actual proposed cost is: "24 Euros (30.36 US Dollars, 16.60 UK Pounds)
per year translating to 2 Euros per month (2.53 US Dollars, 1.38 UK Pounds),
a very insignificant rate considering the competition.". Perhaps a little expensive for Americans given the state of the dollar but pretty good for the rest of the world. :-) <--- That's a big smiley!!!

Installed components include:-

ANTLR Translator Generator
Apache SOAP
Batik SVG Toolkit
Cocoon
com.oreilly.servlet
com.Ostermiller.util
Cryptix 3
Echo
EchoPoint
Element Construction Set
FOP
FreeMarker
Google API
Hibernate
HTTP Unit
Hypersonic SQL
InstantDB
Interbase InterClient JDBC Driver
iText PDF Library
Jakarta Cactus
Jakarta Log4j
Jakarta Lucene
Jakarta ORO
Jakarta Struts
Jakarta Taglibs
Java Advanced Imaging ImageI/O API
Java Advanced Imaging
Java API for XML Parsing
Java XML Parser
Java XSL Transformations
JavaBeans Activation Framework
JavaMail
Jaxen XPath implementation
JDBC Connection Pool
JDOM
Jimi
JSTL 1.0 Implementation
JTidy
JUnit
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDBC
MySQL JDBC Driver
Oracle 9i JDBC Thin Driver
POP3 Provider
PostgreSQL JDBC Driver
Regular Expressions for Java
SAP DB JDBC Driver
SAXON XSLT processor
Sybase JDBC Driver
WebL
WebMacro
Xalan-Java
Xerces Java Parser
XML Parser for Java
XMLC

-John-

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The actual proposed cost is: "24 Euros (30.36 US Dollars, 16.60 UK Pounds)
per year translating to 2 Euros per month (2.53 US Dollars, 1.38 UK Pounds),
a very insignificant rate considering the competition.". Perhaps a little expensive for Americans given the state of the dollar but pretty good for the rest of the world. :-) <--- That's a big smiley!!!
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not to whine but.. unfortunately, "the rest of the world" outside europe and america is a 3rd world country. if its expensive for americans how much more for the "rest of the world"