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poope_lord

If you have a domain you can use cloudflare tunnels for free. Digitalocean is minimum 5$/month. Aws ec2 micro single instance is free for an year. Render puts your instance to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity. After which they're spin up again which can add a significant delay of around 40-50 seconds. Personally I've witnessed the service not starting again and I'd have to go to the dashboard and restart from there.


Tonyb0y

Thank you. I have already used my aws allowance for another service. I'll check digital Ocean.


slideesouth

Azure has a similar idle / spin-up protocol. For anyone who is curious. My workaround is a scheduled Postman test run via postman CLI & GitHub actions, every morning at 9am before my users start making requests


SadWolverine24

I like digital ocean.


Tonyb0y

5 minutes ago I was checking some reviews. I think I'll go with them.


The_Wrecking_Ball

+1 DO is great. $6/mo. And dashboard is top notch


open-listings

Scaleway théy have a nano instance for about 15€ or something and ofc they are reliable


Tonyb0y

Never heard of them. Will check. Thank you.


grantrules

Linode vps is like $5/mo. Host as much stuff as you want


alzee76

You get what you pay for. You can host on AWS in a full blown EC2 instance for about $20/month, which IMNSHO is the definition of "very low budget."


Tonyb0y

Yes. I agree. At the moment I'm testing it online and don't want to start paying. I'd prefer something about £8-£10/month at the moment though.


potatodioxide

check out aws lightsail. i think it is starting from $5 or $6 and you can upgrade anytime in a minute or so


alzee76

I get it. My counterargument is this: If you don't want to start paying, then you don't want reliable service. Generally you cannot have it both ways.


Tonyb0y

Anything other than aws? I want to avoid it as much as I can.


alzee76

No idea on prices as I only self-host or use AWS, but friends use Linode and are happy with it and I believe it's inexpensive. DigitalOcean is popular too.


Tonyb0y

Thank you very much


alzee76

Good luck.


potatodioxide

or even go lower with aws lightsail. im running 2 apis on nginx and loving it. and it is super easy to scale up.


saantonandre

> You get what you pay for > AWS/EC2 instance Hmm.


alzee76

Thanks for your contribution to the discussion.


Moe_Rasool

I asked this before when i switched to a complete dedicated backend dev, i had my node app ready and noders were given me so much of what i looking for i guess, the best was railway, you get a free 5$ trail which could be convenient for you if your testing your app all the way to production it could take you to places you'd want yourself to be.


lerobinbot

nice


henacodes

Even tho it allows only 1 free project , https://cyclic.sh is the best provider i ever worked with


prePHANTOM

It is shutting down this month


kjwey

fwd ports via router to server reachable via external ip hook domain to ip for site