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by redtuesday 3712 days ago
Check out Red Hat's Openshift Online [1] if you haven't already. They offer 3 Gears for free, each with 512 MB Ram, 1 GB Disk space (install e.g Postgres into one gear and you have a DB with 1 GB) and you can use Lets Encrypt with their Bronze plan (which is free if you only use the 3 free gears). Depending on what your hobby sites do this could be enough.

[1] https://www.openshift.com/pricing/
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polymeris 3712 days ago
If you are OK with running a >3 year old version of Postgres, that is.

Other than that, openshift is nice, though, I agree.

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redtuesday 3712 days ago
Yes, would be nice if they could upgrade the version of some of the dbs/languages/etc. they support. As a user I could write my own cartridge to support a newer version of Postgres (like I did for Playframework 2.4+), but then I lose the automatic updates and have to update the gear myself.
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redtuesday 3712 days ago
btw: it seems you still can't automate the cert renewal for let's encrypt on openshift online.[1]

[1] https://openshift.uservoice.com/forums/258655-ideas/suggesti...

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