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by weaksauce 1328 days ago
> new AWS customers will be able to run a free Amazon EC2 Micro Instance for a year

I don't see how that's comparable. it's one instance of a micro server(and a few other things) for one year for a new AWS user and then it's over. heroku was an unlimited number of apps free tier forever with a limit on cpu/database usage for each app.
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jeroenhd 1328 days ago
If you don't need a lot of bandwidth: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/

Four CPUs, 300GiB of storage and 24GiB of RAM should last for quite some time.

If you do need the compute and bandwidth: pay someone. Pay Heroku or set up a Dokku (or similar) system on your own server.

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eastern 1327 days ago
Yeah but you should count the legal expenses for parsing the Terms & Conditions :-)

This is Oracle. You weren't thinking of agreeing to to the T&Cs without understanding what they actually mean, were you?

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jeroenhd 1327 days ago
The terms are actually quite reasonable. You can't even pay for your resources without changing your account type (anything you buy with your free credit gets wiped out after the trial month, only the "always free" stuff remains...) so I'm reasonably certain you can use their service quite comfortably.

The 50mbps uplink isn't spectacular and certainly not enough to run a business on, but for anything the other free tiers are intended for (experimentation and hobby use) it's sufficient.

Juet remember to never give them your credit card number and provide as little personal information as legally allowed. You don't want the lawnmower to come in your direction, the lawnmower doesn't care.

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