Consider running a demo site

MDeLuise / plant-it

🪴 Self-hosted, open source gardening companion app

https://plant-it.org

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Consider running a demo site #172

Open Skivling opened 4 months ago

Skivling commented 4 months ago

Avoid duplicated feature requests

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Description

I would like to be able to see Plant-It in action and test it a bit before actually setting it up for myself. Would it be possible for you to run a demo site? A lot of self-hosted projects do this, and you'd run it at https://demo.plant-it.org

MDeLuise commented 4 months ago

Hi @Skivling, Thanks for your feature request.

I think this is a great idea, providing a demo site would indeed allow users to see Plant-It in action and test it before setting it up themselves.

I need to explore the best way to implement this, particularly which hosting services to use to keep the costs low (or better if free at all). If you have any ideas about suitable hosting services, please let me know.

I'll look into this and keep you updated on the progress.

CodingEmil commented 4 months ago

Fly.io seems to over free hosting, as long as one stays in the parameters of their "Free allowance" Source:

Free allowances

Resources included for free on all plans:

Up to 3 shared-cpu-1x 256mb VMs

3GB persistent volume storage (total)

160GB outbound data transfer

Additional resources are billed at the usage-based pricing detailed below.

There are no free allowances during the free trial