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Previously I thought of NFSN as a place to host a low-traffic static site for $1/year, or host an unmanaged WordPress site for $1/month. It sounds like it can n

by kderbe 12y ago

Previously I thought of NFSN as a place to host a low-traffic static site for $1/year, or host an unmanaged WordPress site for $1/month. It sounds like it can now run web frameworks like Rails or Node.JS, as well as internal services like Redis. I'm not sure where they fit in a world with free Google App Engine tiers and $5/mo VPSes. But they've been around a while, doing their thing, so that must be worth something to folks that are leery of the big guys and weary of being victims of acquisitions and product re-imaginings.

xtrumanx 12y ago
> Ruby on Rails, Django, Catalyst, Node.JS, Network.Wai? Sure, technically you can run them here, but it’s not what you’d call a good idea. Don't get your hopes to high on deploying your rails/node app on NFSN.
- kderbe 12y ago
  They're describing how things used to work. Read the very next line in the blog post: > Take that long-standing well-known fact about our service, and pitch it straight into the trash.
  - xtrumanx 12y ago
    Oops. I kind of read that bit over and over and still came away with the wrong idea. Reading comprehension failure I guess.
archagon 12y ago
Weirdly, with a bare-bones Wordpress install with barely any traffic, I still spend about $5 every month or two. Not sure what's going on there. For blogs, I've found that Github Pages offers one of the best deals in the industry. It's free and it allows you to use your own domain; all you have to do is provide static HTML, or alternatively a bare-bones Jekyll site. With a few simple files, it's possible to have a custom domain and 404 error pages. Because it uses git, you automatically get a complete historic archive of your site without having to resort to archive.org. For once, without paying any extra money, you can have your own custom content and not have to manage any server stuff. Just write and publish.
- baldfat 12y ago
  Wordpress requires MySQL which is an added cost of $0.05 a day
  - bearbin 12y ago
    It's actually $0.02 for the first process (which can have as many databases as you like) AFAIK.
gnopgnip 12y ago
There are some benefits to using a managed service instead of setting everything up yourself on a vps. The management tools are usually better, and many of the common services are already installed and configured for webhosting. Also its generally less work to deal with scaling using a hosting provider compared to doing it yourself, but it really depends on how much you value your time.

by kderbe 12y ago

xtrumanx 12y ago

> Ruby on Rails, Django, Catalyst, Node.JS, Network.Wai? Sure, technically you can run them here, but it’s not what you’d call a good idea. Don't get your hopes to high on deploying your rails/node app on NFSN.

kderbe 12y ago
They're describing how things used to work. Read the very next line in the blog post: > Take that long-standing well-known fact about our service, and pitch it straight into the trash.
- xtrumanx 12y ago
  Oops. I kind of read that bit over and over and still came away with the wrong idea. Reading comprehension failure I guess.

archagon 12y ago

Weirdly, with a bare-bones Wordpress install with barely any traffic, I still spend about $5 every month or two. Not sure what's going on there. For blogs, I've found that Github Pages offers one of the best deals in the industry. It's free and it allows you to use your own domain; all you have to do is provide static HTML, or alternatively a bare-bones Jekyll site. With a few simple files, it's possible to have a custom domain and 404 error pages. Because it uses git, you automatically get a complete historic archive of your site without having to resort to archive.org. For once, without paying any extra money, you can have your own custom content and not have to manage any server stuff. Just write and publish.

baldfat 12y ago
Wordpress requires MySQL which is an added cost of $0.05 a day
- bearbin 12y ago
  It's actually $0.02 for the first process (which can have as many databases as you like) AFAIK.

gnopgnip 12y ago

There are some benefits to using a managed service instead of setting everything up yourself on a vps. The management tools are usually better, and many of the common services are already installed and configured for webhosting. Also its generally less work to deal with scaling using a hosting provider compared to doing it yourself, but it really depends on how much you value your time.