Free or cheap solutions to host your projects
Stack on a Budget
What's in a app/site?
Front End Code
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- Images
- Video
- Files
Backend End
- Server side code
- Database
Do you really need an app?
CMS of old to new
Content is King
Connecting all the things
APIs are your friends
- Pagevamp: Facebook as a CMS
- Chatlio: Customer Support within Slack
- Example of Flickr as CMS: WitnessKingTides
Walkthrough demo code time
Github Pages
- https://pages.github.com/
- HTTPS
- Free backups and versioning
- Custom Domains
- All public by default
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Limits:
- Repo recommended limit of 1GB
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Published site no larger than 1GB
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Soft bandwidth limit of 100GB per month
- Soft limit of 10 builds per hour
Heroku
- https://heroku.com/
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Almost all the languages!
- Node, Ruby, Java, PHP, Python, Go, Scala, Clojure
- Database: Postgres 10K rows
- HTTPS
- Custom domains
- Private Code
- Limits:
- Sleeps after 30 mins of inactivity, otherwise always on depending on your remaining monthly free dyno hours
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Free dyno hours/month
- Verified accounts: 1000 (Unverified: 550)
Firebase
Firebase
- https://firebase.google.com/
- Platform + Tools
- Mobile + Web
- HTTPS
- Custom Domain
- Limits
- Hosting: 1GB
- Storage: 5GB
- Database: 1GB
- Lock-in
Mlab
- https://mlab.com/
- Mongo: 500MB sandbox
Gearhost
- https://www.gearhost.com/
- Custom Domains
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Languages
- .NET / ASP
- PHP
- Node.js
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Databases
- MSSQL 2014
- MySQL 5.6
- Limits
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1GB Bandwidth
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100MB Storage
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20min Session Timeout
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DB: 5-10MB
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name=this is my name
address=no 123, jln abc, kampong !\@# BN0098, Brunei
phone=123123
email=nobody@here.com
web=nobody@domain.com
===============================================
10MB ~= 55,874 x
AWS Lambda
- https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/details/
- Serverless
- Define trigger point
AWS Lambda
- Define code
- AWS robustness
- AWS configuration
- Limits ( / month)
- 1M requests
- 400,000 GB-s
compute time
$$ time
Webhosts
DIY Boxes
The Cloud
Q & A + Discussion
Free or cheap solutions to host your projects
By Timothy Lim
