Tomcat Hosting - How To Handle Tomcat Java With Your Web Hosting Company

If you are launching a site that needs to use Tomcat, make sure to check with your web host. I had an experience recently where we launched a site that utilized Tomcat Java and we were having a very hard time trying to find a host that would get it to work, I will share the knowledge I learned here from finally getting this project launched.

Tomcat Java is really Apache Tomcat, it also goes by the names Jakarta Tomcat, or just plain old Tomcat. It was created by Apache Software Foundation and is an open source servlet container. Without getting too technical, it implements the Java Servlet with the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun, and utilizes a pure Java server environment for Java to operate inside.

Don't confuse Tomcat with Apache web server, they are completely different, Apache web server is a C execution of a HTTP server. Apache Tomcat has all the software and tools used to configure and manage operations. Another nice thing is that Tomcat can also be configured by using XML files. This can come in handy if you need to configure using XML.

After extensive research we settled on hostgator, which will install Tomcat free on Windows dedicated, or Linux VPS/Dedicated plans that use Cpanel for a control panel. In both instances Tomcat is installed as an addon in Cpanel or Plesk, depending on the server operating system. You have to contact the support team to enable it.

If you are launching a website that needs to utilize Tomcat hosting, there are options available. Many web hosts do not turn this plugin on by default and many charge an upgrade fee if they do. For us, we just had to ask for it to be turned on.

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