Ask HN: How far free IaaS products can take you?

Posted by kmbd on Saturday April 29, 2017 @07:47PM
from the ask-hn dept.

started working on a startup project with a friend recently. Like most of the other startups, we are trying to get up and running with a minimal budget. However, we need IaaS like aws, GCM, Azure. However, whichever we end up using, we'll have to get most out of the free-tier offeings.

How far you went with your products with freely-offered IaaS /PaaS services? What's your realization on the experience(s)?

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Re:Ask HN: How far free IaaS products can take you? by iSloth on Sunday April 30, 2017 @02:02PM (#14232908)

Completely depends on what you are building, if it's an iPhone App and your website is just a static holding page, then that's easy to do for free.

However if your service logic is server side then I don't think you'd last long on a free tier.

Why not go for a more simple VM from someone like DigitalOcean? It's not free, but it's very cheap and much simpler to use.

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Re:Ask HN: How far free IaaS products can take you? by lihan on Sunday April 30, 2017 @12:14AM (#14230134)

Largely depending on your product.

I find free tier offering on IaaS generally far less useful than what a production system needs.

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Re:Ask HN: How far free IaaS products can take you? by ddorian43 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @09:52AM (#14231480)

Why do you "need" IaaS ?

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Re:Ask HN: How far free IaaS products can take you? by kmbd on Sunday April 30, 2017 @12:11PM (#14232201)

To host "services" :)

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Re:Ask HN: How far free IaaS products can take you? by ddorian43 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @01:16PM (#14232613)

nice one

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