(Ken Struys' Blog)
web-developer, serious schemer
Setting up PLT-Racket Hosting
Hosting for PLT-Racket (formally PLT-Scheme) can be very hard to find. Most hosting companies only support languages like PHP/Perl/Ruby and Python. I had a very difficult time finding a hosting that would actually support this site. In the end the solution was a Virtual Private Server (VPS). With a VPS you are given a VM with root access on a server that is shared by other VMs. Usually VPS is a really expensive option for hosting but I found real cheap VPS for $17US/m from Ultra Hosting.
- The VPS included:
- Root Access
- 256Mb Ram
- 5 Gb Storage/200Gb Bandwidth
- SSH
- Dedicated IP
- CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu
Within 24 hours of signing up I got an email with my machine's IP and root password. From there it just just a matter of installing my plt-racket webserver. The services has been pretty reasonable, I've had my VM randomly die once but they managed to fix the issue immediately.



