Where did you find a free server that is that good? Or is it just one of those 100$ free credit things?
It’s oracle. You can get up to 4 cores and 24gb ram on an arm vm from Oracle cloud for free when there are open slots. They get snapped up quick.
are you sure there isn’t small print somewhere saying you forfeit your eternal soul to larry ellison?
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They probably get you in bandwidth fees over X amount. It would cost pennies for a small scale virtual server with big numbers as the hardware is shared, it would spend most of the time not doing anything. They could set up a machine and oversell a tier like that and make it all back with profit on their first bill.
I bet they run these free accounts on their test infrastructure, not production. What they get from it is real-world user testing of changes to their infrastructure, similar to how Microsoft uses its Windows Home versions for testing new updates.
Kinda similar to my self-hosted server; 24 core, 32GB - peak number of concurrent users ever hosted is 3.
32 GBs for 3 users? it definitely runs a javascript app
I doubt it’s ever peaked at more than 3 GB usage, even with 18 containers running.
If it ran an Electron app it would need an upgrade.
Can’t be more than a hello world
I have a GSA flashed with non-google firmware that has eight cores and 156GB RAM… it’s not set up yet, but I’ve got all my drives I need. It’s going to be a like 7TB local UNRAID server someday.
That’s not bad at all gonna have to check it out. I host my site on digital ocean it’s on the smallest single core 1gb ram droplet. I run crowdsec and nginx and a couple other little things and it sits around 40% ram usage. Costs 6$ a month and I added 4 weeks worth of automatic weekly backups for $1.50 a month.
I can deal with $7.50 for a little static web server.
They do offer a free $200/60 day credit if you get in with one of the free Linux Foundation cloud classes which is plenty to play with.
FWIW, if all you have is a truly static website (html, css, and js), then GitHub Pages is free and you can point a custom domain there from your registrar, and don’t have to worry about backups or server uptime.
I wasn’t aware of the Github pages being free that’s neat. It is fully static (running on nginx but generated with hugo) and I use freedns.afraid.org for the domains. Good to know thanks for the tip :)
https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-github/ https://www.roshanadhikary.com.np/2020/11/forward-your-freedns-custom-domain-to.html
Hope these guides are useful for you.
Hey thanks I’m sure they will be!
And if you want a private repo, you can also use gitlab and point to custom domain with gitlab pages or cloudflare pages.
Should check out Racknerd. I’ve got a 4 core, 4 gb ram, 50 gb disk VPS for $50/yr.
Could you link the page which shows your exact config at that price? I can’t find anything like that. KVM, AMD, Windows VPS - I looked at all three but none suggest the price you’ve written.
That price sounds like a steal, and I’d love to get it if possible. I currently pay $6/month per VPS with Digital Ocean
Another good site for VPS deals is https://www.lowendbox.com/ . I’ve used them to find the RackNerd deals and also I’ve got a storage VPS I use for off-site backup that’s stupidly cheap with another provider.
That’s crazy helpful - thanks!
Perfect, thanks a million! I’ll be getting on them soon!
These deals are still active https://www.racknerd.com/BlackFriday/
Also tagging @h0bbl3s@lemmy.world since I should have linked this last night.
Awesome thanks!
Thanks for the tip I’ll definitely take a look! That’s not bad at all and I prefer yearly payments.
Been using racknerd to host my tiny stupid websites for a couple years, it’s great value for money and a fantastic way to learn sysadmin stuff. I also appreciate that they give a lot of heads up for auto-renewal and don’t escalate pricing on renewal.
I do the smallest Amazon Lightsail instance for a static site of about $1.50/month. Site is statically generated from templates in a private git repo I host and backup at home, so I don’t worry about the site itself needing a backup.
I was going to host a Bitwarden instance, as well, but with its RAM requirements, it was cheaper to pay a Bitwarden subscription. So it ended up being just a static site, plus Route 53.
One thing is that it’s pretty clear Amazon doesn’t like Lightsail. They do it because it competes with some other small fixed price hosting options from other companies. To let me use it, I had to email AWS customer support and answer a bunch of questions about what I wanted to do with it and if I had considered EC2, instead.
My site is also statically generated from templates I keep in a private git repo hosted on github I keep local backups of, but I do the generating directly on the server. I just pull the site and generate it manually whenever I do an update. I like the sound of your setup better thanks for the pointers!
You also get a free static website through SDF without sending anyone info. Just sayin’.
They also host a lemmy instance @ https://lemmy.sdf.org/
Oh this is awesome, how have I never heard of this?
Yep.
SDF in Japan ⇒ Japan SDF ⇒ JSDF ⇒ Japan Self-Defence Forces 🤪
Super Dimensional Fortress
Give use the URL and that 100-number might go 🚀 For testing purposes, naturally.
Yeah I’m pretty popular. At this rate I should just add a /wp-admin webpage - according to my logs it’s in very high demand!
This is the opposite of the time my friend posted a link to my personal site on Digg. It was running on a Pentium 1 with 128 MiB of RAM on a home internet connection.
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Hey if you could edit the spammer’s URL out of your quote/translation that’d be great.
