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Re:Ask HN: Any cheaper but good alternatives to DigitalOcean? by SkyLinx on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @03:19PM (#19912921)
That's what I was scared to hear although I should have expected it... The problem is my particular situation. I am not in a position at the moment where I could commit with investors etc even if I were able to handle these things (not super confident from this point of view). So a few hundred bucks is unfortunately a concern for me right now.
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Re:Ask HN: Any cheaper but good alternatives to DigitalOcean? by PeterisP on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @04:17PM (#19913462)
In general, for many areas of online business, if you have enough users (or large business users) that you really need seven servers, then it should bring much more than few hundred bucks a month; and if you don't then it should be (with proper design and implementation) runnable either on a single workstation (your own) or on the free/trial tiers of various cloud providers.
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Re:Ask HN: Any cheaper but good alternatives to DigitalOcean? by alexlander on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @04:33PM (#19913613)
If you want to save this much try to find some free credits, if you didn't use Google Cloud yet you'll get $300 for free, DigitalOcean and Linode also usually have some free credit offers rolling. Don't forget to sign up for the upcoming Startup School to also get some free AWS credits!
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Re:Ask HN: Any cheaper but good alternatives to DigitalOcean? by jdi on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @02:21AM (#19916873)
I didn't try this, but maybe Gitlab's partner offer for Google Cloud, which lifts the credit to 500$ might still be working (link to Gitlab's article here [1], direct link here [2]).

If you or anyone else finds out if this is still valid, let us know :)

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/ [2] https://cloud.google.com/partners/partnercredit/?PCN=a0n6000...

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Re:Ask HN: Any cheaper but good alternatives to DigitalOcean? by jppope on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @06:32PM (#19914468)
No biggie... do some contract work for a week and pay for it with that money. If you know how to put together a project that has seven servers, busting out a marketing site or two should take you almost no time.
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