Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers

Re:Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers by the_duke on Monday May 03, 2021 @04:12AM (#27022706)

Sure, and that's only recommended if you know your way around Kubernetes. I just wanted to illustrate that it's possible to host a k8s cluster with some workloads for 2.5€ per month.

You can always skip the Kubernetes overhead and use plain VMs.

Obviously you can't expect too much from a single vCPU at that price, but as an example, I had the above setup plus miniflux (feed reader), Postgres, Maddy (mail server) and Nginx for a few static sites, all on the cheapest instance. It was mostly fine, apart from occasioal stutters.

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Re:Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers by papito on Monday May 03, 2021 @07:53AM (#27023914)

The amount of time and the opportunity cost involved in "knowing your way around Kubernetes", might as well just pay for Slack.

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Re:Stack on a Budget – A collection of services with free tiers by fluential on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:03AM (#27046046)

Hetzner small cloud instances mentioned are insanely performant. They don’t seem to limit small instances like other cloud providers do. So you can do around 160MiB / s of disk writes and 1gbit network, for $2.5/month.

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