I wish this list to include term for free tier.
Free for Developers
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#152Shout out to https://docsify.js.org/#/ on which this site is based. Great tool to get a doc site ready in minimal time. My personal experience with this is also amazing :)
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#153So question for the masses, I’ve wanted to setup a personal account on Google cloud, azure etc and take advantage of free stuff but I am terrified something will happen and I’ll mess something up or someone will mess it up for me and I’ll be out hundreds on my credit card. Any suggestions here? Great list.
Based on stories from HN I would totally separate these accounts from any personal accounts. Even separate it project based. It any of them gets canceled, locked you shouldn't lose access to your personal mail or mobile phone.
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#154for.dev is available
could just register that and make the subdomain free.
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
Grab a revolut account. They're free, and they have a tool called 'digital temporary card' that is good for one use. After the card number is used, it's cycled. Not affiliated, I'm in Aus and I use my temp card for anything I don't want to be ongoing. Doubles as a breach safeguard (my credit card involved in a DB dump doesn't matter if it was a one-off number). There's other good reasons to use revolut but will save…
If you do something like this do NOT sign up for AWS or Google Cloud with your “main account” as a denied card can get your entire account lost.
Also, don't use virtual cards with Google Cloud. My old boss used his shiny new Apple Credit Card, which has a virtual number for non Apple Pay charges.
His entire account got locked out until he was finally about to get ahold of someone in billing to reverse it.
It was right around the time that this article: https://smartprivacy.io/learn/i-got-banned-from-google-ads-f... was making the rounds.
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#156So question for the masses, I’ve wanted to setup a personal account on Google cloud, azure etc and take advantage of free stuff but I am terrified something will happen and I’ll mess something up or someone will mess it up for me and I’ll be out hundreds on my credit card. Any suggestions here? Great list.
I strongly recommend setting up and using virtual credit cards, you can use them to enforce spending limits and spend maximums. There are several services that allow this, for example my CC company supports them directly or there are several services that let you set them up backed by a debit card. That way, if your hosting provider overcharges you it'll just bounce.
Is there a way to do this for people based in Africa? My cursory searches came up empty...
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#157Does anyone know of a decent tutorial for building low-volume / prototype interactive web applications using one of the major cloud-hosting providers, wholly within the free limits? Any framework would be interesting for learning purposes. I have some older MVC .NET sites and I poked around with Azure free Windows Server VMs, but the performance is so painfully bad; if you do anything, you run out of memory. But I'm…
I've used firebase and I would say is perfect for what you describe. No idea how it would work for a bigger project though
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#158So question for the masses, I’ve wanted to setup a personal account on Google cloud, azure etc and take advantage of free stuff but I am terrified something will happen and I’ll mess something up or someone will mess it up for me and I’ll be out hundreds on my credit card. Any suggestions here? Great list.
You can set up alerts and triggers, up to pulling the plug automatically. Not exactly for the faint of heart.
GCP
https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/budgets-program...
AWS
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2...
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/10/announcin...
Re: Free for Developers
#159Shout out to https://docsify.js.org/#/ on which this site is based. Great tool to get a doc site ready in minimal time. My personal experience with this is also amazing :)
It's mildly amusing to see kudos for a solution that lacks any support.
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#160WRT Dynamodb the "25 Gb" free bit is not as useful as it might be because it's the Read and Write Units which might bite you and those are not directly related to data size but are also affected by how you've structured your data. It does mention the bit about the Units on the click through but I'm just saying you want to drill down into these things when it's more subtle than "so much disk" or "that many minutes of EC2".
I'm not bagging the whole thing by any means, it looks like a really useful list but some things are a lot easier to understand what you're getting for free than others.