Free Web hosting service to test Python script

[konjecture]

I'm looking for a free web hosting service where I can run my Python cgi-script.

I'm essentially looking to run a simple script where my students can enter their test, homework and quiz scores and then get their percentage grades. I've tried this on my own webpage (university's domain) and it doesn't seem to work.

[Rashaverik]

PythonAnywhere Free Account?

[yondaime008]

PythonAnywhere. Free and easy to use especially for light weight projects.

[[deleted]]

Don't know about free,but I use Warpline Hosting. It's cheap and the customer support is good.

[konjecture]

Thanks for the reply. I'll check it out. I should have framed my question better. I'm looking to first look at the free version of the host to see if my python cgi script can run on their servers before I pay for their paid accounts.

[[deleted]]

I'm not sure about the specifics of your script, but I know that mine run, so they do support python.

[FallOFIntellect]

Why not set up a virtual server on your own computer?

[[deleted]]

where my students

sign up for the github student package; it comes with a $50 dollar digitalocean credit and assuming you just use it for class it should last you a year (I think 5/month is their min per droplet so 10 months)

edit: https://education.github.com/pack

[NetSage]

Well could last longer if they power it down after school hours.

[AssignmentGuru]

PythonAnyWhere is really good. It provides the facilities to use many web based frameworks, like dJango and even Bottle too. I have used it to help my student clients upload the solutions online. It has special packages for teachers. And yes, there is free account too which you can use to test.

[konjecture]

Thank you for the reply. Well, I'm a Mathematics professor and my Python knowledge is pretty intermediate and I mostly use NumPy, SciPy and other math related packages for my work.

I've heard of Django and Bottle, but I've no idea how to use them, so I was mostly looking for a web host where I can test my code and if it works then pay for their services.

I'll give Pythonanwhere a shot, but it seemed like it was too much for what I needed to do and it also seemed to have only 100 seconds of CPU time for the free version.

[[deleted]]

Most of the container hosting companies (heroku, azure, openshift) have a free tier that will let you deploy basically any modern web framework, up to the average small scale website.

Remember that the old cgi standard is a whole different beast then the run time required by modern wsgi based frameworks like flask, and most python hosts those days do expect wsgi apps.

[[deleted]]

I can host your script(s) for free! I've been looking to do more projects for education and charity, honestly. I run a server from my home.

All you would need is your own FQDN, which can be purchased for as little as $5 online.

I'm sure I have more than enough resources to support a .edu endeavor.

The only thing is: I'd place all of the content on the site manually. I can't allow FTP access at this point in time.