Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

#1

Post by coopreme » Sat, Sep 25, 2021, 12:47 PM UTC

I recently read a short piece about using Oracle’s always free as a VPN. What other cool projects have you run out of any cloud/hosting provider’s always free offerings? (Pour one out for Angelfire and Geocities)

Re: Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

#2

Post by LinuxBender » Sat, Sep 25, 2021, 1:11 PM UTC

Since you mentioned Geocities, Neocities [1]

[1] - https://neocities.org/

Re: Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

#3

Post by cldellow » Sat, Sep 25, 2021, 3:21 PM UTC

Sketchviz [1] runs almost entirely in free tiers from Cloudflare and AWS:

- Cloudflare to avoid big bandwidth bills from AWS for the wasm-compiled graphviz that is on every page

- AWS Lambda's 1M free requests and 400,000 GB-seconds for expressjs (web serving) and graphviz (rendering hostable .png images)

- API Gateway's 1M free requests for routing HTTP -> AWS Lambda (for the app) or S3 (for hosted PNGs)

- S3's 20K GET requests/mo (for hosted PNGs)

The only one I exceed is S3, but it's dirt cheap.

[1]: https://sketchviz.com/new

Re: Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

#4

Post by coopreme » Sat, Sep 25, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

cldellow wrote: post #3

Sketchviz [1] runs almost entirely in free tiers from Cloudflare and AWS: - Cloudflare to avoid big bandwidth bills from AWS for the wasm-compiled graphviz that is on every page - AWS Lambda's 1M free requests and 400,000 GB-seconds for expressjs (web serving) and graphviz (rendering hostable .png images) - API Gateway's 1M free requests for routing HTTP -> AWS Lambda (for the app) or S3 (for hosted PNGs) - S3's 20K…

Bravo. Very cool leveraging services this way, I like your idea of architecting to optimize free tier svcs.

Re: Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?

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Post by zoover2020 » Sat, Sep 25, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

cldellow wrote: post #3

Sketchviz [1] runs almost entirely in free tiers from Cloudflare and AWS: - Cloudflare to avoid big bandwidth bills from AWS for the wasm-compiled graphviz that is on every page - AWS Lambda's 1M free requests and 400,000 GB-seconds for expressjs (web serving) and graphviz (rendering hostable .png images) - API Gateway's 1M free requests for routing HTTP -> AWS Lambda (for the app) or S3 (for hosted PNGs) - S3's 20K…