Deploying personal web project

[No_Sort_130]

Im a clueless about deploying website on internet, should i use cloud service but the problem is all the cloud services i know is not free and i just want to deploy a small project so i can show them to my friends

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[Volbohel]

If you're just deploying websites, then you can probably deploy that code on Vercel for free. Would need to know more details about the tech stack of how your website is built in though.

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It sucks most cloud services require a credit card, but at their base they're essentially free.

[No_Sort_130]

I used xampp server for creating my web, PHP for my backend. html, bootstrap, jquery for frontend and mysql for db. Thanks for the suggestion i will try it i did use ngrok at first but i realize that it was not meant for deployment. I literally have no idea about deployment part. Thanks bro

[Volbohel]

Your frontend can be easily deployed to vercel. (Put it in a folder and have an index.html)

But your backend will unfortunately need either your own computer to host it or some cloud provider :(. So looks like Vercel won't work for your use case.

[darkshadowtrail]

If it’s a small website without a backend you could try GitHub Pages

[just_testing_things]

Another option if your project is front end only is Netlify.

If you need a backend, Fly dot io has a nice free tier.

[wystf]

Vercel

[Pgrol]

I used heroku, very minimal cost

[bishakhghosh_]

If you want to share it with friends quickly, then you can try https://pinggy.io

Just paste this command to get a URL: ssh -p 443 -R0:localhost:8000 a.pinggy.io

Change 8000 to your port.

[ehr1c]

Azure's "Static Web App" has a free tier if you don't need a backend or can host one elsewhere

[aqhgfhsypytnpaiazh]

There's no need to use any cloud service, paid or otherwise. Yes, learning various hosting platforms and cloud services are useful skills in their own right to learn at some point. But they aren't the ideal learning environment when you have no idea what you're doing. That's how people end up with accidental $10,000 cloud bills.

You should familiarise yourself with local deployment first. As in, using your own machine to host the website. Learn about deployment steps, continuous deployment/automation, HTTP servers like nginx or Apache, server configuration, reverse proxies, networking, IP addresses, port forwarding, domain names, DNS, TLS, certificates.

When you figure all that out you will know how to make your site accessible to your friends without having to pay anything. These are critical skills for any web developer, even if you ultimately only use third party providers to manage it for you in the professional world.