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Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
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Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
#162If you need temporary linux servers, check out linuxacademy.com.
I have a paid account and besides accessing the content, i can spin up to six virtual machine to test stuff, at no extra cost besides the montly fee.
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#163If like me you are wondering about the prices, I finally found the FAQ (link in small font at the bottom of the page) and there is the relevant information: 2 Days: $2 1 Week: $3 1 Month: $10 6 Months: $50 So, if you need a long term server (which is not what this service is intended for) it's a lot more expensive than other cheap VPSs (it's easy to find OpenVZ VPSs for as little as $15/yr).
The price reinforces the idea of free temporary Linux servers with short TTL. I think it's smart and the price point could possibly make up for the money lost providing a free service. I am curious as to how it'll turn out financially.
I totally agree with that, that's why I explicitly said "which is not what this service is intended for". My point was to inform people who might be looking for the same information as me, not at all to criticize this service.
Re: Show HN: Dply – Free temporary Linux servers
#164This 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).…
Cool idea, I love it. Solves all of the probs you mentioned. I'm going to try it out and see how it works for me. Thanks.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
Suggestion, after the server successfully created, show the command that they can execute to access the server (ssh root@ , with being replaced with the real ip).
We've had several people suggest making this more prevalent and it's on our todo list :)
I haven't used your service yet, but if I understand the limitation correctly (only github logins/only one server per login) I think it should also be possible to automatically derive a subdomain name from the github username and have that point to the server. Not sure if that's a good idea, just throwing an idea over the wall :-)
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#166Is this from Diply? It uses the same logo font and everything.
It's not and until your comment I wasn't familiar with Diply. Doesn't look like we offer anything similar but if I heard from them with concerns we'd consider changing our logo font to prevent confusion.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of abuse has caused problems for the other services?
A very obvious case would be people sending email - spammers are always hunting to find ways to get their traffic out from IPs without reputation problems. They'll send email from this service and then the services IP addresses will become blacklisted - or more likely the underlying service provider will kick them out to protect their IP space. That's just the most trivial issue, though, and can be part way resolved…
Looks like they already do that according to the FAQ.
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#168The biggest issue that I can see with this is abuse. Do you have a way of preventing email spam and outgoing DoS attacks?
SMTP ports are blocked and we recommend using a transactional mail service if your server needs to send mail.
We're implementing a number of things to profile abusers and prevent abuse on the platform and will be strictly enforcing policies against abuse. The lack of an API and prohibition on automating the creation of servers combined with required Github profile for ssh keys help to make the service unattractive for most abuse cases. Our goal is to use these methods to prevent abuse while keeping a very low barrier to entry for legitimate users.
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#169I am not sure what's the use case for this. For deployment of small web apps, you have heroku, GAE and now, all of which offer "permanent" hosting.
It seems to be great to host Demos for open source projects on there!
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#170CircleCI gives you 30 minutes of playtime on a 32 cores, 60GB RAM VM. All you have to do is log in with GitHub, start a build of any of your public repo & click "Rebuild with SSH". (No affiliations, I just find this mind blowing)
I love this feature about CircleCI - Pretty sure your builds are limited to 4GB per container however.