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I'll tell you from personal experience--dont let free tiers influence your tech decisions. your early lock in decisions are the most costly and you will pay dearly long after the free tiers run out
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Still more reliable and orders of magnitude more powerful than any free service. You can also buy two.
> Still more reliable and orders of magnitude more powerful than any free service. I don't think so. AWS Lambda has a generous free tier and runs on infrastructure that has constant monitoring by professionals, spread across thousands of machines in multiple datacenters all over the world, with an SLA. Your one (or two) servers that share a single consumer internet connection (with no SLA) will never be more reliable…
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I have that stack and security concerns are holding me back. Any suggestions for ways to secure a home network for public hosting?
Put the server on its own DMZ network. If your router doesn't support this, you don't have a good setup for self-hosting. I did all of this for my family's software company 20 years ago. We were serious about it, too: SDSL line (good at the time!) with an SLA, natural gas standby generator, redundant hardware... never again. I spent all my time futzing with infrastructure rather than producing any business value. I d…
I'll tell you from personal experience--dont let free tiers influence your tech decisions. your early lock in decisions are the most costly and you will pay dearly long after the free tiers run out
I am happy to use Netlify as a static file host as that isn't much of a lock in: I can move to S3 later, or even the DO droplet and Nginx!
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I think this works for university student when 99.99% uptime isn't your highest priority. My university has static IP and near 700 up/down speed to each dormitory. So by investing in an old workstation I can easily work on various ideas and built MVP for it. I finally ended up running a crawler service for months before I migrated to a vps.
You can't really do NAT traversal on a university network though, so it's pretty useless for servers.
I also remember downloading quite a bit of MP3s hosted on an SFTP server in a friend of friend’s dorm in Philadelphia.
I see a lot of linode recomendations here, but if you are looking at mostly European audience scaleway.net has very cheap VMs starting at 2€ per month, while not being that much slower than linode
online.net is the sister company of scaleway. scaleway has some ARM bare metal which is cheap but sometimes you see issues if you try to run software only optimized for x86. kimsufi has 3.99 euro/mo baremetal server but very hard to get (have to keep trying). hetzner cloud has cheap vps and also has auctions for servers. I got some i7 8core 16GB RAM & 1-4TB HDD for 22 euro/mo. They are closer to 30 euro/mo but likely…
If you publish a free Alexa Skill (easy to make a basic one) you can apply for $100 in monthly free AWS credits: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/al...
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Bizspark changed and is no longer available. I was in the last round when they shut down early.
They still seem to have something going: Available for qualified Startups Technical enablement Microsoft technology to help your bottom line: Up to $120k of free Azure cloud for two years Visual Studio Enterprise cloud subscription Office 365 Business Premium Dynamics 365 for Customer Engagement and Talent Enterprise grade Azure support https://startups.microsoft.com/en-us/benefits/
I´ll miss it, it was a pretty awesome program.