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While we are at non-clown hosting and others suggesting smaller, alternative hosting options: Is there a hoster that offers hard pricing caps or maybe prepaid
by weinzierl 2y ago
While we are at non-clown hosting and others suggesting smaller, alternative hosting options:
Is there a hoster that offers hard pricing caps or maybe prepaid plans? The background is that I would like to give my kid a way to play around without worrying about the bill, even if that could mean being blocked for the remaining part of a month after allocated resources are exhausted.
We are using Neocities at the moment, which is great (thanks @kyledrake) but we are outgrowing it, especially since at some point you need a real backend.
When I learned web, I self hosted and could use university resources but today I find it hard to find a risk free environment for experimentation.
- jve 2y agoHosting what? VM? Managed hardware? Hard pricing definitely an option as traffic is not metered and one can pay in advance for x months and after that terminate the service.
- weinzierl 2y agoA VM would do it, but what service has unmetered traffic? Don't they all have fine print where they reserve the right to charge you if you overextend your allowance? To be clear: I want to pay for our traffic and don't want to free ride, but I want the failure mode to be "we cut you off" and not "we'll send you the bill later (possibly much later)".
- jve 2y agoWe really do have free traffic. ToS ofcourse applies and we will warn and cut off but not bill - we don't have a mechanism to bill for traffic anyways.