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Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by 0815test »

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #34

As others have mentioned, Linode is great value. Pair it with Dokku and you've got an even cheaper / more customizable (but not scalable) Heroku. However, be weary of Linode's "backup" service if you intend to store a lot of files (as opposed to lots of data / large files). It's file-based (not block-based) backup, and I can confirm it does fail. In our case, we weren't storing tiny files either, they were images upl…

> However, be weary of Linode's "backup" service if you intend to store a lot of files...

Huh? Wouldn't it be a lot better to be wary of that service, thus lowering the risk that you'll be weary of it at some point?

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by pythonbase »

simon_weber wrote: post #54

I'm something of a free tier connoisseur, and recently built an entire project with 13 forever-free tiers. It was more of a personal challenge than a business decision, but it might be a good reference for what's out there: https://www.simonmweber.com/2018/07/09/running-kleroteria-fo... Some other services not mentioned there that I've used for free recently: - humio cloud for log aggregation - nodequery for server m…

Have heard horror stories about the cheap VPS offered at LowEndTalk and similar outfits. What's your average up time? and can you recommend any service provider?

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by gameswithgo »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #55
gameswithgo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand why some are downvoting this but, with consumer internet connections being 1000up/down and a threadripper giving you like 100 cores for a few bucks, this can be a very handy solution, with quicker deploys and easier management. security might be too much of a concern for some applications

> with consumer internet connections being 1000up/down Step out of your Silicon Valley bubble and recognize that this doesn't apply to everyone. I only have 30 megabit up/down with Frontier. I can get faster, but it gets expensive quick, and I don't need more than 30 mbps, even as a gamer. Xfinity only offers 150 megabit down in my neighborhood, with a puny 15 megabit up, and for twice the price. And as others have m…

I'm in Texas

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by futureastronaut »

cpursley wrote: post #29
aetimmes wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like Heroku got left behind in the current k8s craze but they're still a good choice for a lot of use-cases, cheap MVPs being one of them.

Heroku is still significantly easier to use than Docker/K8s.

That depends on your mental model. The isolation and reproducibility of Docker is much easier for me than dealing with build pack nonsesne.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by anurag »

voidmain0001 wrote: post #62

Software Engineering Daily had a recent discussion with the founder of render.com, Anurag Goel, and I learned that it provides static sites for free, and services starting at $5 so it's what I'm reviewing now. Render appears to be using K8s and Docker containers to create instances from Github repos. Anurag gave a reasonable explanation of why he thinks render.com is superior to Heroku at 29:15:5 in the transcript. h…

Render founder here. Happy to answer questions.

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by OJFord »

simon_weber wrote: post #54

I'm something of a free tier connoisseur, and recently built an entire project with 13 forever-free tiers. It was more of a personal challenge than a business decision, but it might be a good reference for what's out there: https://www.simonmweber.com/2018/07/09/running-kleroteria-fo... Some other services not mentioned there that I've used for free recently: - humio cloud for log aggregation - nodequery for server m…

> Was it worth it? Probably not, at least in the context of a side project. Reading pricing docs, planning Dynamo capacity, and setting up a local environment added days to what should have been a weekend project. That said, it was a fun challenge and the result is more robust than my usual vps setups.

I disagree! Learning experience and posting about it aside, almost a year later it's still running at $0pcm?

You, what, doubled to tripled the setup time? And cut annual running cost from let's say $5*12 = $60 (plus taxes over there?) for some cheap but not free tier hunting setup.

Seems that it was worth your while to me. Obviously increasingly so for as long as it can survive (the companies don't fold, or stop the free tier).

Re: Ask HN: Best free compute and other resources for startups?

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Post by simon_weber »

pythonbase wrote: post #82
simon_weber wrote: post #54

I'm something of a free tier connoisseur, and recently built an entire project with 13 forever-free tiers. It was more of a personal challenge than a business decision, but it might be a good reference for what's out there: https://www.simonmweber.com/2018/07/09/running-kleroteria-fo... Some other services not mentioned there that I've used for free recently: - humio cloud for log aggregation - nodequery for server m…

Have heard horror stories about the cheap VPS offered at LowEndTalk and similar outfits. What's your average up time? and can you recommend any service provider?

Pings from instances to nodequery are 98% on the low end and 99.9% on the high end. It looks like I'm at 500+ days up at impactvps.com, though I used to see cpu and disk degradations somewhat regularly with them. I haven't had any major outages in a few years of use, though one provider went bust recently after an overly-aggressive sale (alpharacks).

I generally run one instance + sqlite and accept the downtime. The next step up might be two vms across two providers + a cheap managed db.

I don't think I have any super strong recommendations. I did become a fan of BuyVM recently due to their $1/month shared sql plan. But, they're apparently they're planning to retire it, which puts them at a similar price point as something like vultr.

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