Is there a cloud provider that doesn't require a credit card for free tier?
Pick up a (re-loadable or not) $10 VISA, Mastercard, or AMEX gift card and register it for use online. There's your free tier-use-only credit card.
Free for Developers
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Re: Free for Developers
#82> Azure Kubernetes Service - Managed Kubernetes service, free cluster management
Since this one is the bane of my existence at the moment.
Yeah, this statement is technically correct, it is technically free, but you still pay for the VMs that are part of the cluster, and their disks. (Unless they can qualify for some other "free" metric.) But we've been using this, and we've had lots of spans of time where the managed API server will just time out requests. There's no guarantee on the free version; there's an SLO, but our metrics indicate that it isn't being met. (And our support requests were met with "upgrade to a paid SLA"… which we are, b/c we're a business, but if you're looking at this list, that presumably isn't you.)
Re: Free for Developers
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you know how they detect virtual cards? I have seen some scripts which detect whether card number is valid CC or not. But never heard of validation of virtual cards.
It's not inherit to the card, rather it's pulled via info from the card network (visa/mc/amex/etc). Stripe, for example, returns `card.funding` which is either credit, debit, prepaid, or unknown - blocking anything other than credit or debit isn't bad for SaaS businesses who doesn't want prepaid cards anyways[0]. Outside of that, you can use the IIN/BIN (first 6 digits) to build a blocklist of virtual-card-issuing ba…
> blocking anything other than credit or debit isn't bad for SaaS businesses who doesn't want prepaid cards anyways
It's not clear to me what you mean here: do you suggest SaaS businesses should reject those customers who prefer paying with prepaid cards? Hello, this is me! When I see a prepayment option or even Paypal, I gladly pay, but when you want my credit card info, I wave you good bye!
Re: Free for Developers
#84Anyone on here make use of the free tier of any of these? While I've known of some of the free tier things on AWS, and Google Cloud, I never made use of them long term.
I'm using Oracle clouds free tier for the 2 free (tiny) VMs.
I use them to host a bunch of misc. scripts/programs I've written, a discord bot I wrote for a server I'm in with some friends, my calibre ebook library is also backed up there and the calibre content server is running so I can access it over the internet should I want something to read and be away from my computer.
Mostly good experience, if not the most user friendly. The data transfer allowance on their free tier is fantastic, which is definitely the exception from most free offerings I've seen.
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#85> Azure Kubernetes Service - Managed Kubernetes service, free cluster management Since this one is the bane of my existence at the moment. Yeah, this statement is technically correct, it is technically free, but you still pay for the VMs that are part of the cluster, and their disks. (Unless they can qualify for some other "free" metric.) But we've been using this, and we've had lots of spans of time where the manage…
FWIW if anyone's looking, the hosted DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters are fantastic.
Despite being very early adopters, we've only had one issue and when we pointed the finger at them...the DO k8s team immediately diagnosed the issue, and it was our own fault. Woops.
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#86The first hit is always "free". As in "free puppy", not "free beer".
There's also free-as-in-facebook, where you are the product.
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#87> Azure Kubernetes Service - Managed Kubernetes service, free cluster management Since this one is the bane of my existence at the moment. Yeah, this statement is technically correct, it is technically free, but you still pay for the VMs that are part of the cluster, and their disks. (Unless they can qualify for some other "free" metric.) But we've been using this, and we've had lots of spans of time where the manage…
FWIW if anyone's looking, the hosted DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters are fantastic. Despite being very early adopters, we've only had one issue and when we pointed the finger at them...the DO k8s team immediately diagnosed the issue, and it was our own fault. Woops.
Same with Scaleway's, both just work and are fully free.
Some time ago i compared them against the competition and they fared very well even against GKE:
https://atodorov.me/2020/06/14/comparing-kubernetes-managed-...
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#88My 2 cents on this - I have used the Oracle Cloud free tier trying to get the VMs running. The default resource usage seems higher than what you would get on Hetzner/ionos/digital ocean and the resource monitors are a good chunk of that usage. Configuration was also considerably more difficult for someone with little experience such as myself... Achieving the same task (setting up a BookStackApp server) took consider…
Oracle cloud pricing seems competitive against the big 3, and providing 10TB of free egress is very generous by comparison (that'd cost you around $1k with the big 3!). But Oracle has such a terrible reputation for behaving like an absolute shit, that I've never really considered with any seriousness, or even signed up for a trial.
Would be interesting to see a comparison of Oracle cloud to AWS/Azure/GCP, from the perspective of a developer or architect. If of course Oracle allows such comparisons in their terms and conditions...
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#89The first hit is always "free". As in "free puppy", not "free beer".
What's the difference? Whenever i get free beers i get to pay the next morning and id rather clean a puppy's mess than ache all over
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Commit history could be used to figure it out: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
We need more of these as wikis, or GH repos that use robots to accept PRs. Tried it and it didn’t work? PR. Found a new one and it’s not on already? PR. Also, it would be a really nice bonus if “date added” was generated from the git commit that added the resource.
> more of these as wikis, or GH repos
The people who live on GitHub are unfortunately unable to recognize any distinction.