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As a laid off web developer from a third world country, what is the cheapest solution for me to showcase my skills by hosting full stack websites.

What to do devs used to host following things on a budget

  1. Backend - docker + spring boot
  2. Frontend - NextJs
  3. Domain + DNS + SSL cert stuff 4)Database - amazon ddb or postgres 5)CI/CD
  4. Message broker - kafka?

My budget is 13 dollars per month.

Can it be achieved by using any tools for above things?

Willing to trade off between more difficulty in deployment and tooling for cheap setup.

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[–] Lucifernal@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago
  1. Wait 6 months, save your $13.
  2. Buy a cheap used Dell or Lenovo workstation.
  3. Run that as a server.

Beyond that, I'm not sure if you are going to find anything that will work well for $13 a month. Digital Ocean's $8/month droplet will only give you a single vCPU and 1GB of RAM. Running docker and a postgres DB off that alone is going to be hell.

OVH has a discount right now. Their $14.70/month VPS is $10.29. That's 2 vCores and 4GB of RAM.

Almost all cheap solutions heavily cap bandwidth though, so if you are transferring lots of data to and from, or have lots of traffic, you'll be in trouble.