As a laid off web developer from a third world country, what is the cheapest solution for me to showcase my skills by hosting full stack websites.

What to do devs used to host following things on a budget

  1. Backend - docker + spring boot
  2. Frontend - NextJs
  3. Domain + DNS + SSL cert stuff 4)Database - amazon ddb or postgres 5)CI/CD
  4. Message broker - kafka?

My budget is 13 dollars per month.

Can it be achieved by using any tools for above things?

Willing to trade off between more difficulty in deployment and tooling for cheap setup.

  • NoStructure371@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    - Digital Ocean has (had?) plans for $5USD a month

    - Develop local and use ngrok + dynamic dns to demo when needed, even an RPI is good enough for a few docker containers

    - free tier on AWS and other cloud providers, but be very very careful and use this as a last option since its so ridiculously easy to burn yourself

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    1 year ago
    1. Wait 6 months, save your $13.
    2. Buy a cheap used Dell or Lenovo workstation.
    3. Run that as a server.

    Beyond that, I’m not sure if you are going to find anything that will work well for $13 a month. Digital Ocean’s $8/month droplet will only give you a single vCPU and 1GB of RAM. Running docker and a postgres DB off that alone is going to be hell.

    OVH has a discount right now. Their $14.70/month VPS is $10.29. That’s 2 vCores and 4GB of RAM.

    Almost all cheap solutions heavily cap bandwidth though, so if you are transferring lots of data to and from, or have lots of traffic, you’ll be in trouble.

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    1 year ago

    If you can set that up on a virtual machine, Oracle Cloud offers free ones.

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      1 year ago

      Come here to post it, but yeah. Oracle Cloud always free tier is great.

      Using it for many years and there simply no competition here.

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    1 year ago

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