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Ask HN: What's your hosting solution for projects and what does it costs you?

9 points by przybytniewski ↗ HN
What hosting solutions are you using for your projects? What's your monthly infrastructure cost for that?

I host a few side-projects on a DigitalOcean 10$ droplet + 2$ for backups with docker containers.

It works but I'm looking for something more scalable and future-proof, as I'm planning to jump into SaaS for real and have large traffic :)

For a few users daily DO Droplet is fine, but the DevOps workload isn't worth that for me...

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vmoore
I have a few static sites hosted with Github Pages, with a custom domain that I have renewed for the next 10 years. I have 'set and forget' the projects yet I am always promoting the projects on social media. Total cost: $0.00 for hosting, $50.00 for a 10-year domain.
przybytniewski
Yeah, hosting static sites looks easy this time... But I have larger projects with backend, databases etc., so I'm looking for a wider hosting solution :)
rurban
Same for me, just that I pay 0 for the domain. freenom. have to renew every year.

for free dynamic content hosting fly.io seems to be the best so far. railway.app not so.

synicalx
I've long since given up having projects, but when I used to do that kind of stuff I would mostly run either on Heroku's free tier (RIP) or on my home server.

These days I'd probably opt for one of the various free static site hosting options like DO or Github. If I needed an actual server I'd probably still go for DO, or try and cram it into the GCP free tier.

przybytniewski
Yeah, Heroku is not a good way now :] About the GCP free tier I have to read more, but it looks like I'd still mostly manage the infrastructure myself with that.
aethrae
If you want to cut down on DevOps, try render.com