New site, no PHP

[Xeirxes]

I just bought a new domain with web hosting. My aim is to provide a website with blogging capabilities for just myself, and also ways for me to write reviews on games, movies, etc. and have them display in maybe an alphabetical list or something like that.

I didn't buy web hosting with PHP enabled, so I was wondering if there was any way to do this without PHP. If it's impossible to do, I suppose I might just have to pay the extra $60 or so and get it transferred maybe.

I've looked a bit at XML but that doesn't look to be the sort of thing you would want long blog entries to be displayed with, not to mention the complication of displaying images.

Anyone have any suggestions for me?

[ray326]

You can probably use a Perl-based CGI driven blog.

[Xeirxes]

Are there any tips that you might have on how to begin setting up a site that way?

[drhowarddrfine]

It probably allows cgi access, true? If so, then Perl or even C can be used but you have to ask them.

[Xeirxes]

Right, it's a Linux server and they offered Perl in the plan. I don't actually know anything about CGI though :)

[ray326]

One simple CMS/blog I've used that only needs Perl is Greymatter (http://noahgrey.com/greysoft/).