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I have been running multiple web apps with decent traffic (each ~10K requests per day) at no cost at all. Oracle Free Tier [1] for backends with Cloudflare tunn
by barishnamazov 3y ago
I have been running multiple web apps with decent traffic (each ~10K requests per day) at no cost at all. Oracle Free Tier [1] for backends with Cloudflare tunneling [2] and pages [3] for frontend integration. Works fully seamless.
[1] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/ (4 cores, 24 GB ram for free; switch to PAYG to avoid idleness shut down, but you still pay nothing)
[2] https://www.cloudflare.com/products/tunnel/ https://www.cloudflare.com/products/tunnel/ (protects from attack and automatically connects your backend IP into your domain, e.g. https://domain.com/api https://domain.com/api will redirect to your backend)
[3] https://pages.cloudflare.com/ https://pages.cloudflare.com/ (easy static page hosting, very fast deploys)
- Aachen 3y agoSomehow hearing of getting free hosting from Oracle makes me think of the advice to not stick your "thing" in crazy. It's probably fine, but I'd not touch it if it can be avoided, especially if I can just pay a small and fair fee at another provider (or, in my case, self host it)
- barishnamazov 3y agoIt was my reaction at first too. Luckily, I am not running anything super important or something requiring much privacy there (it's mostly computational services that don't store data). Since I am a student with no residence (and bad university network uptime), I can't self-host, but will do as soon as I move-in to my own place.
- EasyMark 3y agoI'm guess they probably use open source tech and such and can move it over to a new VPS in less than a day...