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Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by user- »

FpUser wrote: post #118
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #55

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> with consumer internet connections being 1000up/down Step out of your Silicon Valley bubble and recognize that this doesn't apply to everyone. I only have 30 megabit up/down with Frontier. I can get faster, but it gets expensive quick, and I don't need more than 30 mbps, even as a gamer. Xfinity only offers 150 megabit down in my neighborhood, with a puny 15 megabit up, and for twice the price. And as others have m…

"Step out of your Silicon Valley bubble" ... I have Business Fiber Internet package from Bell in my house in Toronto. Residential area far from city core with an old houses, definitely not a Silicon Valley. 1000 up and down. It costs me $80 Canadian pesos. Not bad.

Im in the same boat as you (350/350 for $35 tho) but we are outliers even in the Canadian market. Fast internet is just now getting to everyone at affordable prices, even though ive personally had gigabit for 4 years.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by Benjamin_Dobell »

0815test wrote: post #81
Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #34

As others have mentioned, Linode is great value. Pair it with Dokku and you've got an even cheaper / more customizable (but not scalable) Heroku. However, be weary of Linode's "backup" service if you intend to store a lot of files (as opposed to lots of data / large files). It's file-based (not block-based) backup, and I can confirm it does fail. In our case, we weren't storing tiny files either, they were images upl…

> However, be weary of Linode's "backup" service if you intend to store a lot of files... Huh? Wouldn't it be a lot better to be wary of that service, thus lowering the risk that you'll be weary of it at some point?

Sorry, I was weary when I wrote 'weary', whilst I meant to write 'wary'. I'll be more wary of being weary next time.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by jamieson-becker »

At Userify (https://userify.com), we offer a free tier for SSH key and user management for up to 20 servers free (billing doesn't begin until 21 servers) with our SaaS offering (versus 10 free for our on-premise product). Try it out at https://userify.com, no credit card required.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by trazire »

GFischer wrote: post #110
DenisM wrote: post #36

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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 think you have to be introduced into the program by an accelerator now. I´ll miss it, it was a pretty awesome program.

I believe you can email your pitch deck in and get a code to apply.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by wtmt »

onesmallcoin wrote: post #116

buy a .edu email, use google compute till you have an MVP to sell

How do you “buy” a .edu email (without signing up for a long and expensive course or college)? I’ve seen some hacks online to get one for free, but not sure if they work.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by abnerg »

eropple wrote: post #39
013a wrote: post #35

Heroku's free tier is good. GCP App Engine is pretty similar, a little more powerful, but also more limiting in how you build your app. My pick for MVPs is AWS Lambda. It's very easy to get up and running, and you get access to the rich AWS ecosystem. Yeah yeah, the "unlimited scale" benefit will be great when you're accelerating user growth, but that's not why its a good pick for MVPs. Need a cron? Not too bad on Ap…

The difficult part with AWS is local development. Waiting on AWS deploys is not a fast process and it kills momentum. LocalStack tries, but IMO it's not great.

The issues highlighted in this thread around the need to develop locally against cloud resources while dealing with a litany of dependencies are one of the things we are trying to solve at Stackery.

This post talks about how our team experienced much of what’s in this thread and what we built to solve it: https://www.stackery.io/blog/how-do-we-setup-a-proper-server...

VS Code folks seem to be pretty excited about our plugin https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=stackery...

We’d love to have you give it a try and let us know how it works for you.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by vmurthy »

This might come in handy a bit later for you but we were having headaches with the ramp-up pricing of JIRA+Confluence. We explored open source alternatives and found OpenProject to be a great product. Free of charge of-course. Once you get some of the free/cheap VMs mentioned by other posters, feel free to checkout OpenProject. https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00T6OCWRU for EC2 . https://www.openproject.org/ for the main website.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by paulcarroty »

tjoff wrote: post #31
jedberg wrote: post #11

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It's ok if you're ok with your service being down for days at a time. On vacation and the server breaks? Gotta wait till you get home. Internet down? Mine gigabit was just down for five days, a squirrel ate through the fiber and they had to a pull a new one. Running a server at home is fraught with peril but if those downtimes are ok, then go for it.

Still more reliable and orders of magnitude more powerful than any free service. You can also buy two.

It works until your internet connection and electricity are up. They will go down in any unexpected moment.
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