The following comments have been recorded for "mycgiserver".
I have only one comment about mycgiserver: they are EXCELLENT. The last time I used them they were offering 2Mb of space (not 1 as Jason has written in the blah on this host), which was enough to just play around with servlets and learn about them. If I ever had any questions, the support was brilliant - they really know their stuff. The only problem was the downtime - sometimes 2 - 3 weeks with no way of knowing when they would be back up. But hey, they're free and if you're a servlet newbie, they're a great place to start. I think also because they're free there is a high demand for accounts with them, so you may have to wait to get an account if none are available.
mycgiserver is a well done service offering all support we need for hosting our servlets. What the reviewer before said is not true though, I'm a long-time member of mycgiserver and the longest downtime which was due to a total system outtage was around one week. Since 2000 they are nearly 100% reliable, which is great for us! All in all, I can fully recommend it for hosting your servlet, I even heard the'll dramatically upgrade their service with even more features. Can't wait to get my hands on them!!
The features are good. The main missing piece is the inability to view logs and System.outs(). The servers are exxxxxxxxxxxxxtremely slow. A typical page load can take anywhere between 30 to 90 seconds !!
If you're looking for a free place to develop servlets and jsp pages then this is a great site.
They now offer 5M of space and user Resin instead of JRun. They also support Cocoon and PHP.
I am happy to be a mycgiserver user. It may be hard to believe that they give you all these features (5Mb space, database support, JSP/Servlets) for free, but that's what it is. Unfortunately, the downtime is frequent and the server response time is too long (sometimes as long as 20-30 seconds).
Very good, unbelievable for free!
Latest versions of all you need (Java, servlets, JavaMail,...), 5MB space to store files (it's huge if you only store compiled class files). Now you have access to your private servlet logs (the latest 25 logs). The only drawback is the reliability. It seems that the servlets are restarted several times a day, each downtime usually lasts about 10 seconds. It looks like some servlets are crashing the server.
mycgiserver.com was in need of money some 5 years ago (weren't we all?). They found a saving angel in the form of javalobby.org. MyCGIServer is now MyJavaServer and can be found at http://www.myjavaserver.com where you can sign up for a new account, still for free. Note that this really isn't where you would host your own public website, a business site, or customer sites.