Comment The problem for casual Java is hosting (price) (Score 2, Interesting) 610
I'm running into this now, but to get wide acceptance, hosting for Java needs to come down in price. For instance, I can find a company to host my html website for $10/year. I can find a company to host my asp/asp.net website for $3.99/month and I can find a company to host my php site for about the same. The CHEAPEST java host I found was charging about $15/mo for fewer feature addons (bandwidth, space, etc) than the $3 php or asp hosts.
It's not difficult to see why Java isn't in the mainstream as far as casual or moderate web developers go.
And I really don't understand why the cost is so high since everything Java hosting uses is supposed to be free (compared to buying IIS & a windows server).
It's not difficult to see why Java isn't in the mainstream as far as casual or moderate web developers go.
And I really don't understand why the cost is so high since everything Java hosting uses is supposed to be free (compared to buying IIS & a windows server).
