The software that runs this site is available in the Downloads area. Although reading access logs soon gets tiresome, and it’s much better to use the stats package that NearlyFreeSpeech.NET provide. You often don’t get access logs for free or restricted hosting, so as it’s a first for me it’s been fascinating. The detail provided by the access log is intriguing – you can see what people did when they visited your site, in considerable and sometimes baffling detail, and sometimes you find yourself asking – ‘why are you searching for that?’ or, in extreme cases, ‘who are you anyway?’. I’ve not had much occasion to ask for support, but I gather it’s efficient. That definitely qualifies as nearly Free Speech – in fact it’s Almost As Close As You Can Get To Free Yet Still Cost Money Speech! I’m just hoping that it doesn’t go horribly wrong and something I write gets really popular… That’s 8 pence in traditional British money. So far, then, a month of hosting has cost me $0.18. There are about 30-50 visitors a day, and the daily bandwidth is a couple of megabytes. My site uses up nearly 3 MB of storage space, but most of that is the access.log file, because the content and all the newLISP code required (apart from the binary which isn’t mine anyway) takes up less than 750 KB.Īs far as bandwidth goes, I don’t use up much. NearlyFreeSpeech.NET operate a policy of charging you according to how much storage space you use and how much bandwith your visitors use. Well – Macs, BSD – it’s all from California, right? :-) I use a Mac locally, but I haven’t had any problems uploading newLISP code that runs OK on my system onto their system. I gather that the hosting is on a cluster of FreeBSD servers. They’re running version 9.1.1 of newLISP, which isn’t too old, although version 9.2 has been out since August this year, so I’ve got to avoid using functions such as dostring, which was introduced in 9.2.1. The site is powered by newLISP, one of the many CGI languages that NearlyFreeSpeech.NET support – there’s Haskell and OCamel there too – see the full list here. It’s been a month since I created unbalanced-parentheses, so I thought it would be good to write a few things about this site and the service provided by my hosts.

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