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free-for-dev
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free-for-dev
A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
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A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
34 sourcesA list of software and other offerings with free developer tiers
3 points · Open discussionFree-for-dev – A curated list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS that have free tiers
2 points · Open discussionA list of SaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to DevOps and infradev
1 points · Open discussionA list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers
28 points · Open discussion$5? That's tad expensive in most of world. It's often better to use free tiers (https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev) or $1 / $2 VPS (https://lowendbox.com/)
In Linode increases price of compute plans and moreRight now the most generous free tier is from Oracle (24GB RAM machines feels unreal). But you can find other free tier offerings here: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
In From Go on EC2 to Fly.io> my side project
You have a lot of options here that don't involve hosting a site from your own living room. Try looking at these lists for ideas:
https://github.com/jixserver/free-for-dev
https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
In Ask HN: Host a website from a living room in 2022?"A list of PaaS offerings that have free tiers"
https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev#paas
In Tell HN: Heroku alternatives with generous free tiersI don’t do anything with the services but hopefully this can inspire:
https://free-for.dev/#/
https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
In Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier?Commit history could be used to figure it out: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev
In Free for DevelopersOpen Source Stash seems to be opinionated (for lack of a better word) and there doesn't seem to be a way to submit projects to it in the public (like a pull-request for example where a discussion can be had) but only privately to the maintainer (ironic, for a webpage maintaining a collection of OSS software)? Also, I need to allow countless third-party services (uMatrix puts the count at 51) to even make the website work. I wish that weren't the case.
This other website I have been using is likely more comprehensive, no-gimmicks, and fast: https://awesomeopensource.com/
Also see: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev (freetiers)
In Open Source Stash – Privacy-focused, powerful, secure open-source alternativesOracle cloud has some pretty good freebies. https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev#major-cloud-provid...
In How to deploy a React app for freeAlso check out https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev . Not just for students
In GitHub Student Developer PackShowing the 15 most recent of 34 sources. Enable JavaScript to search and browse every indexed mention.