Webspace
Below is a list of some of the webspace providers being used successfully by other Cumulus Users. A list of non-compatiable providers is listed for reference.
Please feel free to add to this list as required
Free Webspace
http://www.freeglovine.com/ Glovine Free Web Hosting. » 1,200 MB of Storage » 10,000 MB of Monthly Transfer » 5x E-Mail Accounts » 5x MySQL Databases » Permanent Ad Required,full FTP access Live Chat to get all the information you need straight away.
Commercial (paid) webspace
- UK Web Hosting - We offer cheap yet reliable UK Web Hosting for shared,reseller, VPS and dedicated server Hosting in UK datacenter. Our packages support Cpanel/WHM & Plesk Control Panel with softaculous, siteBuilder, PHP,mysql support.Our cheapest package starts @1.25 GBP per month.
- RSHostingUK or RSHosting - offers choice of reliable UK and US hosting and supports Cumulus Weather Station software with all web hosting plans. Starting from as low as $1.25 per month, RSHosting offers excellent web hosting services with fast support.
- DreamHost - good value for multiple domains
- E-Rice - Low cost ($10, $20 or $30 a year) web hosting used by many weather related sites. A great way to start out. All you need is your own Domain and away you go. Offers PHP5, MySQL and more. Does not provide crontab abilities however.
- Godaddy
- Hostgator - Both individual sites and reseller sites. Works very well with weather related sites. Especially useful if you need multiple domains contained within a single management system (reseller account).
- ozemail.com.au / iinet.net.au
- 1&1 - more expensive than other host but their reliability has been excellent. www.1and1.com or www.1and1.co.uk
- iWeb
- GloVine Web HostingAn Aussie site but anyone from anywhere can be hosted there. Great support. cPanel & Fantastico, Unlimited Emails, PHP5, MySQL, Unlimited Subdomains. First Month Free. 60 Day Money Back Guarantee. Check out their 'Personal' Package $1.95 p/month. 'Starter' and 'Premium' packages available too.
Non-Compatible with Cumulus
- Google Sites
- Jabry
- 000webhost.com (don't allow realtime.txt in free hosting)
- Zymic (don't allow weather sites (!))
Hosting Your Own
Assuming you have hosting ability via your ISP or use a commercial ISP you can host your own. You need to be able to host port 80 and be within your ISP's AUP to do this.
- Sun GlassFish Web Stack - http://www.sun.com/software/webstack/index.xml
LAMP/SAMP both Solaris x86 and Solaris Sparc. Complete webstack that can be used to build your own webserver
- Apache Friends XAMPP - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html - Windows and Linux
Popular package for making your desktop into a web server. You can practice setting up your website with this, as you initially don't need to allow access for anyone other than your pc. One advantage of using your own web server is that you can get Cumulus to copy files onto it, and move onto using FTP later. Search on support forum for experience of others using XAMPP whose site is shared and can be viewed by anyone.
