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Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.
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Is there a free host option? #266

Closed onattech closed 1 year ago

onattech commented 1 year ago

Hi there, This is not an issue but a question. Great job with shynet by the way. So currently my site wouldn't get more than 5 hits a day and wondering if there is a way to host shynet for free.

  1. Does anyone know a free host provider for very light use case?
  2. If I used a service that sleeps like Heroku used to, when my the site gets a hit, that hit would be missed while the server trying to wake up right?

Thank you

adriel commented 1 year ago

I mean, you could use Google Cloud's e2-micro free VM. Though I pay like 8c a month for mine, think it's due to a little AU/NZ traffic. But it's basically free.

Wouldn't say it's easy to setup, but if you got the time to learn how to do it. There are plenty of guides out there too. You are then running a fully self-managed Linux server though, which could be an issue. Not sure what your background is in.

https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#compute

milesmcc commented 1 year ago

Hey @onattech! Thanks for checking out Shynet. You might have luck with the Fly.io free tier. I'm marking this issue as closed just to keep the repo clean, but I hope others can share their thoughts as well.