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Just curious, what would be the best hosting option for beginners to use for their snake API server?

• bvanvugt 8y ago
  Heroku is a really good option for beginners (and it's free!) We've got a few repos on GitHub that can be forked and deployed directly to Heroku: https://github.com/battlesnakeio/community/blob/master/starter-snakes.md https://github.com/battlesnakeio/community/blob/master/start...
• tills13 8y ago
  Historically, they've recommended Heroku... however, their dynos have a cold-start problem, causing your snake to sometimes timeout. I would recommend using an AWS free-tier instance if you have the option.
  • cakebrewery 8y ago
    I remember that, they recommended a workaround last minute for it. Our snake depended on simulations so we just spun up a beefy GCP instance for a short period at the expense of a few cents.
    • tills13 8y ago
      hah! last year, for our bounty snake, we used a c4.2xlarge. Still, we could only manage a depth of 6-7 before hitting the response-time limit.
• nullandvoid 8y ago
  If you're looking for something easy to get started with digitalocean / linode offer reasonable plans ( and you can always host a site or something with the extra power you'll have spare ) Alternatively aws offers 12 months limited 'free' usage on many of its services last time I checked - you should be able to use their most basic ec2 instance within that free tier I believe
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• xtagon 8y ago
  All the options other people are suggesting are good, but if you host on Google Cloud Compute's us-west1 region you'll get very low latency as that's the region from which they send the HTTP requests.
• rkangel 8y ago
  I'm a fan of Google app engine for pain free deployment of simple things. If I have a go at this later, it'll be a Phoenix (Elixir) app running on app engine flex.