Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
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Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
#2This is a project I've been working on for a while. Dply allows you to quickly create a temporary cloud server (1CPU/512MB RAM/20GB SSD) for free. You can have one free server running at any time. Log in with your Github account and it will allow you to create your server using your Github ssh-key. Servers are free for 2 hours and expire after that time (unless you choose to add more time via credit card or bitcoin). It's a quick and easy way to demo some code on a live server or just play around with a few popular Linux distros.
We also provide the ability to create a button for your project allowing you to let people create a server with your service/project running on it for free to try it out. Create a yaml or bash user-data script and others can launch servers with it.
For the last 11 years on and off I've run a small Linux distribution. I work for a well known cloud host by day but in talking with users learned that it's a hassle sometimes to create an account, billing profile and all that when you just need to quickly test or share something so I built this in my free time.
Do you expect to make money on this?
Honestly, no idea. I have a decent credit grant that will cover free 2 hour servers for a while so it was worth trying out.
How do I log into my server?
All servers are created with ssh-key authentication only. You are provided the option to select from the ssh keys on your Github account when you create a server. Your key will be applied to the "root" account.
I am happy to answer any questions about dply.co and would love any feedback.
Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
#3This is a project I've been working on for a while. Dply allows you to quickly create a temporary cloud server (1CPU/512MB RAM/20GB SSD) for free. You can have one free server running at any time. Log in with your Github account and it will allow you to create your server using your Github ssh-key. Servers are free for 2 hours and expire after that time (unless you choose to add more time via credit card or bitcoin).…
Can I make another free server immediately afterwards?
What's your anti-abuse policy/process?
Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
#4Ah! Brilliant, I was looking for this recently but could not find a reason why someone would make this though. Thanks!
Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
#5This is a project I've been working on for a while. Dply allows you to quickly create a temporary cloud server (1CPU/512MB RAM/20GB SSD) for free. You can have one free server running at any time. Log in with your Github account and it will allow you to create your server using your Github ssh-key. Servers are free for 2 hours and expire after that time (unless you choose to add more time via credit card or bitcoin).…
Looks cool, I hope it works out for you!
First impressions: From the sub-pages ("how it works" etc) you should add clearer links to the start page/maybe add a login button on those as well?
You should have some info about who you/your company are if you want people to maybe give you money (maybe that's even legally required)
Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
#6This is a project I've been working on for a while. Dply allows you to quickly create a temporary cloud server (1CPU/512MB RAM/20GB SSD) for free. You can have one free server running at any time. Log in with your Github account and it will allow you to create your server using your Github ssh-key. Servers are free for 2 hours and expire after that time (unless you choose to add more time via credit card or bitcoin).…
Can I make another free server immediately afterwards? What's your anti-abuse policy/process?
As a free service we will pretty strictly enforce abuse reports and take action on them. We're using a few methods to profile users based on their github account/ssh key and other factors to block abusers once their identified. Dply servers are blocked from using SMTP ports to prevent spam.
Yes. You can create another server once the first expires but automating this process is not allowed and therefore we do not provide an API.
Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
#7This is a project I've been working on for a while. Dply allows you to quickly create a temporary cloud server (1CPU/512MB RAM/20GB SSD) for free. You can have one free server running at any time. Log in with your Github account and it will allow you to create your server using your Github ssh-key. Servers are free for 2 hours and expire after that time (unless you choose to add more time via credit card or bitcoin).…
how will you deal with abuse? scripts to just spin and mine bit coin etc. cool project!
Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
#8This is a project I've been working on for a while. Dply allows you to quickly create a temporary cloud server (1CPU/512MB RAM/20GB SSD) for free. You can have one free server running at any time. Log in with your Github account and it will allow you to create your server using your Github ssh-key. Servers are free for 2 hours and expire after that time (unless you choose to add more time via credit card or bitcoin).…
Looks cool, I hope it works out for you! First impressions: From the sub-pages ("how it works" etc) you should add clearer links to the start page/maybe add a login button on those as well? You should have some info about who you/your company are if you want people to maybe give you money (maybe that's even legally required)
Great feedback. The goal was to keep things as clean and basic as possible but the site itself will continue to be improved as we learn more about how people use the service.
Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
#9This is a project I've been working on for a while. Dply allows you to quickly create a temporary cloud server (1CPU/512MB RAM/20GB SSD) for free. You can have one free server running at any time. Log in with your Github account and it will allow you to create your server using your Github ssh-key. Servers are free for 2 hours and expire after that time (unless you choose to add more time via credit card or bitcoin).…
how will you deal with abuse? scripts to just spin and mine bit coin etc. cool project!
This initial release is designed to test two things.
1.) Our abuse processes. The goal in this area is to both be very strict in preventing abuse while trying to do so with as little inconvenience for legitimate users as possible and
2.) Testing the ROI. Cloud servers are really inexpensive for short periods and we will be testing conversion rates to see if the project can be self-sustaining through the added time model.
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#10Doesn't work for me. I seem to be getting a 403 forbidden code when I authorise it.