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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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[–] increased-Letti-49@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

do you want to read that?

[–] capitalismsdog@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Github, frontend is free. Heroku is free too (kinda slow tho)

[–] IntelligentLeading11@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Heroku doesn't have free accounts anymore I think. At least my free account apps were killed a few months ago.

[–] Hungaz@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Heroku is NOT free anymore

[–] kash_god@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

use free accounts on all platforms. Then start again.

[–] Fiendop@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you can get shared hosting with cpanel for less than $5 a month.

[–] 4strnout@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Any recommendations?

[–] AccurateSun@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Racknerd has VPS deals starting for like $13 per year

[–] whmalpha@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Hi. Company Odin Hosting is running promo for free cpanel hosting. Just search in google Odin Hosting and chose package " Large website hosting" and enter promo code "NewClient". Free forever with 100gb ssd , 100 domains and unlimited bandwidth.

[–] MaManPF@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you can set that up on a virtual machine, Oracle Cloud offers free ones.

[–] SxxxX@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Come here to post it, but yeah. Oracle Cloud always free tier is great.

Using it for many years and there simply no competition here.

[–] marxolity@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Digital ocean

[–] NoStructure371@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

- Digital Ocean has (had?) plans for $5USD a month

- Develop local and use ngrok + dynamic dns to demo when needed, even an RPI is good enough for a few docker containers

- free tier on AWS and other cloud providers, but be very very careful and use this as a last option since its so ridiculously easy to burn yourself

[–] 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.

[–] remoteguy11@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

you can literally buy a linux machine for $2 and install everything you need