Is there a cloud provider that doesn't require a credit card for free tier?
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/free, 30 days trial for "Hyper Protect Virtual Server" with 2GB RAM.
Free for Developers
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Thanks. I've tried to do a little reading up on Saas, Paas and Iaas and tried to understand this a bit better. I'll try to do a pull request in the next day or two. For me, Stamen Maps have been a big deal for stuff I do. It took me forever to find something of this caliber that's suitable for my aims, but I'm just doing maps for various projects and not some kind of GIS thing.
> I've tried to do a little reading up on Saas, Paas and Iaas and tried to understand this a bit better To distill this down for the purpose of this specific topic (map tiles): - the map tiles being provided under CC is a copyright / right-of-use / legal intellectual property thing. Nothing to do with any provision of material service by Stamen What Stamen provide that's relevant here is a service, that's somewhere v…
Thank you.
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Sounds like a great experimental candidate for automation by something like GPT-3.
GPT-3 is a text generator. How would you use it to check links?
Text generation, when fed the data it needs, is a fully general task API. You would submit something like the following request to GPT-3.
Wikipedia sentence: In 1735 a volcano on the island of Foobar erupted.
Original article content: In the history of volcanic eruptions there have been many different notable eruptions. One occurred in the year 1601 on the island of Foobar. Another occurred 134 years later on the same island.
Does the citation match: Yes.
Wikipedia sentence: Bar Foobar was a prolific American poet.
Original article content: In recent years, the number of athletes who have been added to the American Sports Hall of Fame has increased dramatically. In fact, the Sports Hall of Fame just added its 1000th new member, Bar Foobar, on June 15, 2014.
Does the citation match: No.
Wikipedia sentence: The leader of the Foolandian revolution was Bob Jones Sr.
Original article content: The Foolandian revolution remains one of the hallmark events of the 20th century. It was spearheaded by Bob Jones Sr. who today has a Foolandian holiday named after him.
Does the citation match:
Re: Free for Developers
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That will only give you the date it was added, not the last time it was checked. Wikipedia does that through bot, adding an "accessed " to external links. I supposed you could do the same here. You could even use Actions to generate a list of entries in need of checking (e.g. haven't been checked in 6 months).
A bot can check that the link is not dead, but it can't check that the link still has the information claimed by the citation.
By "do the same" I meant you could put "checked ", of course you'd have to have a human do it. Which is why I proposed to generate a list of entries that need checking (by humans). Sorry this wasn't clear.
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I'm sorry that you experienced that. I work on the team responsible for the instance agent. We're aware that there have been performance and resource issues with it, and are always trying to drive down resource usage. If you're okay without any metrics for the instance, you can always completely disable the agent. Over the last several months we've migrated most things to Go (which was always the ultimate goal), and…
On the Free Tier with your VMs it's currently impossible to get a cluster (with say MicroK8s or K3s) up and running and responding to requests. Either the free resources limits quoted are wrong or something else is afoot.
There shouldn't be any difference between the quoted resource limits and reality, if there is something is definitely wrong, and I want to get that identified and resolved.
I haven't had time / opportunity to look in to Microk8s or k3s. Would it be straightforward for me to replicate what you were seeing? Just follow a simple online tutorial?
Note: We built/build OCI with security in mind, and encouraging a more secure-by-default approach. All of the standard platform images come with the firewall enabled and locked down, and the default network security groups are locked down too. One example brought up in the earlier days of the platform build out were all those times you see people's MongoDB accidentally exposed. Obviously this is a total guess as to what you ran in to, it's definitely something that trips up customers.
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#196Anyone know if there is a similar list but for university students? I know some places will give you credits or free services if you're enrolled at as a student for working on projects.
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#197Anyone 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 use lambda to pull some stuff into S3 and DynamoDB (S3 is not free though, and transfer out of AWS is DEFINITELY not free, it's almost always the majority of the cost).
I also use Cloudflare for my static website on S3.
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Curious to know more about what specifically you find obtuse about pricing? I've used Azure a lot, and don't recall any ambiguous pricing.
While I was doing the "free 30 days + 12 months of free stuff", a certain level of MSSQL was listed as free, but hidden under that is creating the storage for MSSQL which is a separate and additional cost that you cannot avoid. (At least, not that I could figure out.) By the end of my 30 days, I found the bare minimum performing low volume .NET + SQL on Azure was going to be $30+/month even for just a prototype/devel…
I run a hobby .net core website on a $5 digital ocean instance and it runs fast as hell. You definitively don't need to spend $30. I'm using a PG database but it looks like maybe it would even be possible to run SQL server on a 2GB instance.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-...
You just have to bite the bullet and learn a few linux admin tasks like setting up nginx, supervisor, file permissions.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/host-and-deploy...
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On the Free Tier with your VMs it's currently impossible to get a cluster (with say MicroK8s or K3s) up and running and responding to requests. Either the free resources limits quoted are wrong or something else is afoot.
There shouldn't be any difference between the quoted resource limits and reality, if there is something is definitely wrong, and I want to get that identified and resolved. I haven't had time / opportunity to look in to Microk8s or k3s. Would it be straightforward for me to replicate what you were seeing? Just follow a simple online tutorial? Note: We built/build OCI with security in mind, and encouraging a more secu…
I did open ports I thought I needed for K3s and MicroK8s but I may not have caught all of them. Any simple online tutorial should get you to where I was!
It'd be really great to show developers they have a place they can make toy clusters without having to worry about gotcha charges.
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#200So 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 was on the free Redhat Open Cloud (rhcloud.com) for the years it existed. Thus I would never use the free Oracle cloud.
Since then I'm a happy free Heroku user, but also tried Azure, Google, AWS. Azure had the worst UI and features, but the others similar bad. Google also cannot be trusted for such a freebie, because of their random PM policies, Amazon forgot why. Both high risk to pay unexpectedly.