Recommendations for PHP/SQL Free Host

[dmpotter]

I haven't programmed in a very long time. Though, I really like the idea of developing with this utility.

I know I might be stretching on my abilities on my first application. But basically, my wife is diabetic and I want to record her sugar readings on a remote server. She has multiple devices, so I wanted each one to have the "same" view. I was also going to tap into some of the charting features that are possible (granted in VB, I always had Crystal Reports to make it easier). I also can't purchase the program till later on this week, though I seem to have lost the $10 discount off the $49.99 price after I registered to the site, and I think I will need some of those libs to get what I want working in place.

Enough of the tl;dr, sorry about that.

Does anyone have recommendations on a server I can use, where I can create maybe 3 or 4 tables to store various things. I suppose if I ever get to the stage where I want to go to market with something I will need to work in login's passwords etc..

 

[Erel]

A shared hosting that supports PHP / MySQL should cost a few dollars per month. I'm not familiar with free hosting services so I don't know if they offer MySQL or not.

 

[dmpotter]

Thank you for moving the thread to the right place I realized later that I was in the wrong forum.

I was afraid that it would cost, least some money to maintain a hosted solution. Still do you have any suggestions on a decent provider?

 

[Erel]

I don't have enough experience with shared hosting. I recommend you to check this site: Web Hosting Talk - The largest, most influential web hosting community on the Internet

 

[dmpotter]

Thank you for the link Think I found a free provider as long as I don't abuse it. Which won't be possible since it's just going to be a few records initially. Least it's enough for me to develop something and later go to a pay service for reliability.

 

[susu]

I have an unlimited host so if you want I can help you. Just PM me your details such as your wished user, password.

 

[dmpotter]

I may need your service soon. The service I'm using doesn't seem to be up enough. I'll let you know though. I really don't want to string anyone along my experiment. I have a huge learning curve, and need to get what's in my pudding cloud of a brain into code

 

[Merlot2309]

@ Susu,

How very nice of you :sign0188:

Helen.

 

[dmpotter]

I may have been over thinking this. Seems that if I use the HTTPLibs like in the following

http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...-connect-android-mysql-database-tutorial.html

My database, even though remotely hosted would be localhost to the php script.

Ok just purchased the application, time to start learning these libs

 

[warwound]

The hostname used by PHP to connect to a MySQL database is entirely dependent on your server set up - it has nothing to do with any clients that connect.

And i'll add that typically any free web host that offers free database access will generally be slow and have poor uptime.
These web hosts attract everyone - including the script kiddies.

Have you thought about running your own web server on your home computer?
xampp is very popular and takes just a little configuring to give you all the features you need.

A free DynDNS account will give your computer a domain name - handy if your ISP gives you a dynamic IP address.

Martin.