I saw a post earlier on how someone was using the free hosting in Oracle to run their instance, I made an account but haven't gotten it setup
I'm running mine on one but be careful: Oracle can stop your instance or ban you without a reason any time. They will just tell you your "trial" is over.
I had it for some time — like more than a couple of months — and then I just added my credit card and never worry about it. The hardest part actually was getting a server provisioned, since you can’t change your region after account creation, and there’s no way to know if there’s ARM resources available for you to provision upon in your selected region.
I used a script and got mine in 2 days
Me too, it took about a week before it became provisioned. Definitely not one of those “I’ve got some time this weekend to go from sign up to up and running” kind of thing.
I’m hosting on DigitalOcean and buy the URL somewhere else (GoDaddy in my case). If DO becomes to expensive under load I’ll move to AWS. Have done this with a few other projects the same way: start out and tinker, finding a good setup on DO and move to AWS for price efficiency.
I was planning on trying out elest.io, which is the only one I’ve seen
I have tried elest.io. You get a 7 day (up to $20) trial after adding a credit card.
Setup is easy and you get a running instance in minutes. Setting up custom domain isn't as straight forward for a managed service though.
The cheapest server costs about $10 per month.
Recommended if you're looking for a managed solution and don't wanna bother with setting it up yourself.
I’m running mine on a t3.small AWS EC2 instance. Added an extra drive for storage. Haven’t setup backups or anything yet as it’s just me testing for fun. I’ll probably just have it backup to S3 (single region infrequent access) a few times a day if I decide to stick with it. Less than $10/month right now which is fine with me for now.
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