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Ask HN: How far free IaaS products can take you?
started working on a startup project with a friend recently. Like most of the other startups, we are trying to get up and running with a minimal budget. However, we need IaaS like aws, GCM, Azure.
However, whichever we end up using, we'll have to get most out of the free-tier offeings.
How far you went with your products with freely-offered IaaS /PaaS services? What's your realization on the experience(s)?
- lihan 9y agoLargely depending on your product. I find free tier offering on IaaS generally far less useful than what a production system needs.
- ddorian43 9y agoWhy do you "need" IaaS ?
- iSloth 9y agoCompletely depends on what you are building, if it's an iPhone App and your website is just a static holding page, then that's easy to do for free. However if your service logic is server side then I don't think you'd last long on a free tier. Why not go for a more simple VM from someone like DigitalOcean? It's not free, but it's very cheap and much simpler to use.