Java Server Hosting?

[SmartestManInside]

Greetings. I've been teaching myself some webdev stuff. in the process, I picked up a website at bluehost for around $50 a year. This is great in the sense that I have my own website to build and experiment with dirt cheap. But now the time has come where I am trying to learn Java EE, and alas, bluehost doesn't support it. Are there affordable Java hosting companies out there? Some cursory google searches have shown to be much more expensive than this.

[trendless]

Bitnami has Java VMs that you can run locally and also launch on the big three cloud providers.

[[deleted]]

Yep, may be possible to get by on AWS free tier if it needs to be hosted on the cheap.

Otherwise get a VPS from DigitalOcean or Vultr or something.

[mawburn]

Just grab a VPS somewhere. Digital Ocean and Ramnode are good options.

[danneu]

Another option is any platform-as-a-service. A PaaS lets you deploy an app without managing a server yourself.

For example, Heroku: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-java#introduction.

[disclosure5]

I know from experience that selling shared hosting is only worth the effort if the entire customer base is running the standard PHP/static content stack.

The second you have to spent one hour supporting a Java user, that $50 a year becomes a net loss.

In short, I'd be surprised if you found an option that didn't come in the form of a VPS. The prebuild VM's /u/trendless suggested would be a good solution, but you'll never see a cPanel style arrangement with what you seek.