Stringing together several free tiers to host an application with zero cost

https://blog.dahl.dev/posts/stringing-together-several-free-tiers-to-host-an-application-with-zero-cost/

by aleda145 • 4 years ago

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pestatije• 4 years ago

The problem with free tiers is they can disappear any moment...great setup anyways, and guide.

tuefekci• 4 years ago

But if you read hn you will See that happens aswell if you pay :/

doodlesdev• 4 years ago

I love free hosting and I really like this setup shown. I've written about some available free options before at https://www.doodles.dev/2022/05/27/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-....

The big problem is that free plans change, requirements change and this leads to a lot more maintenance sometimes, honestly I think I should just get a DO droplet and done with it already.

One of the big examples recently is Heroku removing their free plans entirely, which is a bummer honestly, hopefully we see fly and render get feature parity and the DX we used to get with Heroku. Dockerfiles have recently gotten me to really consider PaaS for more important deployments since the dockerfiles remove basically any worry you can have about vendor lock-in. (except for the DB, as always)

Stringing together several free tiers to host an application with zero cost

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