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Ask HN: What do you do with your free tier or dirt-cheap VM?

• api 7y ago
  Host a personal site and use it as an arbitrary shell box from which to test network stuff. I also have it set up so I can route through it when traveling to avoid crappy captive portals and suspect networks.
• yarapavan 7y ago
  Try one of the awesome-selfhosted solutions.
• codefined 7y ago
  Host https://femto.pw https://femto.pw, a free file uploading and downloading service.
  • auxym 7y ago
    What do you use for storage?
    • codefined 7y ago
      MinIO, a S3-compatible file store, running on top of a cluster of ZFS VMs. It just uses the available disk space from my other servers.
• djbeadle 7y ago
  I use the Digital Ocean $5/month VM to self host my static website (generated via Hugo although I'm not thrilled with it) on Apache, run Grafana and an InfluxDB server and experiment with Unix.
  • endisukaj 7y ago
    Serious question: why not use github pages to run your static website?
• etherio 7y ago
  Host my automated newsletter http://metadigest.uzpg.me http://metadigest.uzpg.me and my blog http://uzpg.me http://uzpg.me