<story><title>Low-Cost VPS Testing</title><url>https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdkhadsj</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they&amp;#x27;ll always be relatively expensive, but I&amp;#x27;m primarily a dev &lt;i&gt;(not ops)&lt;/i&gt; and I don&amp;#x27;t have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely.&lt;p&gt;Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it &lt;i&gt;(Rust based)&lt;/i&gt;, but at $7&amp;#x2F;m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5&amp;#x2F;m DO box can host quite a few apps in containers, by comparison.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps Serverless would be a great playground for low&amp;#x2F;no traffic apps, but I&amp;#x27;ve not gotten into serverless much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thesandlord</author><text>Give Google Cloud Run a try. Can run any Docker container, and billing is per request. It is basically a fully managed knative.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;run&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;run&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;My side projects all run for free.&lt;p&gt;(I work for Google Cloud)</text></comment>
<story><title>Low-Cost VPS Testing</title><url>https://toys.lerdorf.com/low-cost-vps-testing</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdkhadsj</author><text>I can&amp;#x27;t wait for PaaS prices to drop. I know they&amp;#x27;ll always be relatively expensive, but I&amp;#x27;m primarily a dev &lt;i&gt;(not ops)&lt;/i&gt; and I don&amp;#x27;t have the time nor desire to manage my own servers securely.&lt;p&gt;Heroku lately has seemed a tempting offer, assuming I can run my apps on it &lt;i&gt;(Rust based)&lt;/i&gt;, but at $7&amp;#x2F;m for little side projects it felt.. expensive for a no user side project. They can add up. A $5&amp;#x2F;m DO box can host quite a few apps in containers, by comparison.&lt;p&gt;Perhaps Serverless would be a great playground for low&amp;#x2F;no traffic apps, but I&amp;#x27;ve not gotten into serverless much.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>WrtCdEvrydy</author><text>I do CapRover + FaaS on the small $5 droplet on Linode. I run a lot of random stuff out of it, with the only change from me being increasing swap from 512MB to 2GB (it&amp;#x27;s all SSD backed anyways).</text></comment>