“Free software is great. But one of the biggest appeals of it is
that it is free. In other words, you don’t pay for it.
Unfortunately, with online applications, that isn’t always true.
Take photo galleries for example. All I wanted to do was to create
a photo gallery powered by Gallery2. The problem was, I share my
web hosting. So I didn’t have access to a MySQL database. Gallery2
requires MySQL. The obvious (sounding) answer was to buy hosting.
But students don’t make a ton of money. Besides, I wanted to use
free software without paying. Thus began the search for a way for
me to host a photo gallery without paying a dime…”