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by southerntofu
1693 days ago
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> I was comparing the payment to buying or operating a server (even a free old server has costs, e.g. for electricity) Sure, but if the machine is already running, it's free. Or if you can stick it in a cupboard at work/university, it's free. > 0/month is there actually free cloud hosting? don't they ask for your credit card first before they offer you "credits"? |
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It still has costs for admin and electricity (via extra CPU load), though I grant these could be marginal.
>Or if you can stick it in a cupboard at work/university, it's free.
This is using someone else's resources, rather dubiously ethical. I suspect IT is going to have a fit when they find out - assuming they didn't block the relevant ports in the first place.
>is there actually free cloud hosting? don't they ask for your credit card first before they offer you "credits"?
There are free plans on Azure/AWS/GCP. Asking for credit card data does not mean you are being charged, I suspect it's really more about identifying users.
It's possible to set up free plans without credit card if one has some other id (e.g. Azure's free plans via MSDN). A prepaid card should work as well.