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It's for an open source project, not an internal work instance or anything. As a student at uni with no full time job, adding more monthly charges is hard to de

by Shank 11y ago

It's for an open source project, not an internal work instance or anything. As a student at uni with no full time job, adding more monthly charges is hard to deal with.

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thinkbohemian 11y ago
At Georgia Tech we got a very small server space which was used in a few CS classes, it would have been large enough to run hubot. Your university might have a similar setup.
- derefr 11y ago
  Heroku was basically becoming the go-to place to run thousands of little bots—and more importantly, to advise people to run their little bots—without thinking about marginal costs. It was becoming everyone's little pocket of persistent personal cloud agents. The "launch on Heroku" button on Github pages was a thing you could just press on a whim as a realistic solution to your problem. Now none of that's true.
sebular 11y ago
I'd try to scrounge some old computer from your CS department or buy a raspberry pi and run it on that.
- mhink 11y ago
  Old computer, yeah- Raspberry Pi, not so much. Takes hours to compile node from source, and I've only been able to find one source for ARM node binaries. And after all that, hubot still ran pretty damn slow. :(
  - e12e 11y ago
    Presumably you'd buy a Rasberry Pi v2 that has arm v7, and can run full/regular Debian with a proper kernel? https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi Still, Debian only ships nodejs 0.10 (even Sid) for now -- and I'm not sure what the status is for compiling node 0.12 on armv7 (it apparently has issues on armv6 which the rpi v1 runs). Fwiw, if you can get by with node 0.10 for hubot (Which I think you can[1]?) -- there shouldn't be any problem: http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/n/nodejs/ http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/n/nodejs/ Unless you need to compile your own nodejs binary for some reason? [1] https://github.com/github/hubot/blob/master/package.json https://github.com/github/hubot/blob/master/package.json
e12e 11y ago
Move it to digital ocean? https://education.github.com/pack https://education.github.com/pack
mark_l_watson 11y ago
IBM's Bluemix has a very generous free tier. If you can run an app or apps using a total of 512M of ram with modest data storage requirements, then that is free.
fiatjaf 11y ago
So because you are a student you think people have to provide you with free computers?
halostatue 11y ago
It should be possible to install hubot on a small OpenShift gear.
fooey 11y ago
I have a bunch of little open source, public service sorts of things too Don't know what I'm going to do with them. They're useless if they're not up 24/7, but I can't justify wasting $84 a year on them either.

by Shank 11y ago

It's for an open source project, not an internal work instance or anything. As a student at uni with no full time job, adding more monthly charges is hard to deal with.

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thinkbohemian 11y ago

At Georgia Tech we got a very small server space which was used in a few CS classes, it would have been large enough to run hubot. Your university might have a similar setup.

derefr 11y ago
Heroku was basically becoming the go-to place to run thousands of little bots—and more importantly, to advise people to run their little bots—without thinking about marginal costs. It was becoming everyone's little pocket of persistent personal cloud agents. The "launch on Heroku" button on Github pages was a thing you could just press on a whim as a realistic solution to your problem. Now none of that's true.

sebular 11y ago

I'd try to scrounge some old computer from your CS department or buy a raspberry pi and run it on that.

mhink 11y ago
Old computer, yeah- Raspberry Pi, not so much. Takes hours to compile node from source, and I've only been able to find one source for ARM node binaries. And after all that, hubot still ran pretty damn slow. :(
- e12e 11y ago
  Presumably you'd buy a Rasberry Pi v2 that has arm v7, and can run full/regular Debian with a proper kernel? https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi Still, Debian only ships nodejs 0.10 (even Sid) for now -- and I'm not sure what the status is for compiling node 0.12 on armv7 (it apparently has issues on armv6 which the rpi v1 runs). Fwiw, if you can get by with node 0.10 for hubot (Which I think you can[1]?) -- there shouldn't be any problem: http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/n/nodejs/ http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/n/nodejs/ Unless you need to compile your own nodejs binary for some reason? [1] https://github.com/github/hubot/blob/master/package.json https://github.com/github/hubot/blob/master/package.json

e12e 11y ago

Move it to digital ocean? https://education.github.com/pack https://education.github.com/pack

mark_l_watson 11y ago

IBM's Bluemix has a very generous free tier. If you can run an app or apps using a total of 512M of ram with modest data storage requirements, then that is free.

fiatjaf 11y ago

So because you are a student you think people have to provide you with free computers?

halostatue 11y ago

It should be possible to install hubot on a small OpenShift gear.

fooey 11y ago

I have a bunch of little open source, public service sorts of things too Don't know what I'm going to do with them. They're useless if they're not up 24/7, but I can't justify wasting $84 a year on them either.