[Lazarus] fpweb for delphi?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 27 May 2010, Myles Wakeham wrote:

>> FPC already tries its damnedest to be Delphi compatible - maybe it's
>> time Delphi tries to be FPC compatible. Let them do the work for a
>> change.
>
> A couple of things may have escaped the conversation...
>
> As of the current shipping version of Delphi, its Windows only.  Sure, there 
> is something in the works out there for cross-compiler, etc. but its not here 
> yet.  Its one thing to have a web enabled application, but its another thing 
> to host it.  And with the vast majority of the cheap web hosting companies 
> out there running on Linux, FPC is really the only option for this.  Delphi 
> developers know this - if they want to deploy their web based solution 
> cheaply, FPC is the best way to go for them.
>
> The problem, however, isn't about trying to bring Delphi peeps over to FPC 
> because of fpWeb.  They'll get that.  The problem is finding Web Hosting 
> companies that will let you deploy CGIs on their servers, without forcing you 
> into the VPS product line.  VPS are coming down in price, but the success of 
> languages like PHP really comes down to willing and available low priced web 
> hosting companies and I don't think you are going to be able to offer a 
> solution competitive with PHP that can run on a $5 a month host.  If there is 
> an option for this, we need to promote that to the Delphi folk (and the 
> existing FPC community), but I haven't found one yet that doesn't require a 
> Linux sysadmin level of user to work with, or is seriously restricted in 
> bandwidth/disk, etc.
>
> So big thumbs up to FPC for having a Linux based option to deploy solid web 
> solutions.  But find a web hosting solution you can deploy it on might be a 
> more important challenge to overcome than bringing more Delphi people over 
> who will find the exact same business issue when they get here.

The issue is independent of Delphi/Free Pascal.

There is no solution for this using any compiled technology. Not even .NET
code will help you with this, if the hosting company only offers PHP.


Michael.