<story><title>Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers</title><url>https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_duke</author><text>Free is great, and you can get a decent mileage out of cobbling together a few services.&lt;p&gt;But I&amp;#x27;d personally be way too stressed and annoyed by worrying about the often very restrictive free tier limits. You can very easily blow through the network egress, for example.&lt;p&gt;For things I want to be cheap I&amp;#x27;ve started hosting a lot of things on Hetzner Cloud [1].&lt;p&gt;Even their cheapest  instance (1vCPU&amp;#x2F;2GB RAM&amp;#x2F;20TB traffic)  at 2.5 Euro&amp;#x2F;month  can run a k3s Kubernetes cluster with Traefik ingress, loki logging, their own CSI driver, cert-manager, Grafana and a 2 or 3 light weight Go&amp;#x2F;Rust services. With their Terraform provider I can easily scale up the cluster in less than a minute.&lt;p&gt;And since it&amp;#x27;s Kubernetes I can also always move things to GC or AWS if required.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s incredibly cheap, and you don&amp;#x27;t have to worry about limits or free tier periods ending, etc. It&amp;#x27;s a long-term solution.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure there are some other similar providers out there.&lt;p&gt;edit: to be clear, I also have clients with sizable production workloads on the same infrastructure, it&amp;#x27;s not just for tiny toy deployments. Above is just an example how far you can go for &lt;i&gt;almost&lt;/i&gt; no money.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hetzner.com&amp;#x2F;cloud&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hetzner.com&amp;#x2F;cloud&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BiteCode_dev</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t know Hetzner Cloud, an first thought, &amp;quot;wow, it&amp;#x27;s even cheaper than OVH, which is already a bargain&amp;quot; (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ovhcloud.com&amp;#x2F;fr&amp;#x2F;vps&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ovhcloud.com&amp;#x2F;fr&amp;#x2F;vps&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;But then I realized you are limited in bandwithd to 20 TB, while OVH provides, for barely more €, unmetered traffic. It&amp;#x27;s huge because you never have to worry about a random spike day, a bot doing something stupid, an attack, or a use case switch (ex: video streaming).</text></comment>
<story><title>Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers</title><url>https://github.com/255kb/stack-on-a-budget</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>the_duke</author><text>Free is great, and you can get a decent mileage out of cobbling together a few services.&lt;p&gt;But I&amp;#x27;d personally be way too stressed and annoyed by worrying about the often very restrictive free tier limits. You can very easily blow through the network egress, for example.&lt;p&gt;For things I want to be cheap I&amp;#x27;ve started hosting a lot of things on Hetzner Cloud [1].&lt;p&gt;Even their cheapest  instance (1vCPU&amp;#x2F;2GB RAM&amp;#x2F;20TB traffic)  at 2.5 Euro&amp;#x2F;month  can run a k3s Kubernetes cluster with Traefik ingress, loki logging, their own CSI driver, cert-manager, Grafana and a 2 or 3 light weight Go&amp;#x2F;Rust services. With their Terraform provider I can easily scale up the cluster in less than a minute.&lt;p&gt;And since it&amp;#x27;s Kubernetes I can also always move things to GC or AWS if required.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s incredibly cheap, and you don&amp;#x27;t have to worry about limits or free tier periods ending, etc. It&amp;#x27;s a long-term solution.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure there are some other similar providers out there.&lt;p&gt;edit: to be clear, I also have clients with sizable production workloads on the same infrastructure, it&amp;#x27;s not just for tiny toy deployments. Above is just an example how far you can go for &lt;i&gt;almost&lt;/i&gt; no money.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hetzner.com&amp;#x2F;cloud&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.hetzner.com&amp;#x2F;cloud&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trinovantes</author><text>How&amp;#x27;s the latency from NA to their German datacenters? Their offerings seem much better than my current Digital Ocean setup at the $10 bracket&lt;p&gt;(as a side note, is there an NA-equivalent of Hetzner?)</text></comment>