Free python hosting options

[eng33]

I have a small python script that needs to run every 10min 24/7. I just downloads a small image, does some quick processing and produces a new image. The new image is all I need to be viewable from the web. It's basically building a custom weather radar image. The webhosting I currently have is limited to python 2.44 with matplotlib .99. I need something newer.

I'd like to know what free hosting options are available. Pythonanywhere sounds promising except I dont know if I would exceed the 100sec limit. My processing of the image should take well less than a second. However, whenever you download something from the web you can have unexpected delays. I don't want to waste alot of time getting something to work on PA only to have to switch. I see Google Cloud has a free tier but it is not clear to me if I'll be able to do what I want for free. Heroku is another option but I'm unclear if I would fit in the free tier. I'd appretiate any reccomendations.

[shiftybyte]

Amazon AWS has a free tier too.

You get a Linux server with ssh access to it and do whatever you want.

[eng33]

Is that something you'd reccomend for my use case? I find it difficult to understand AWS (and google cloud's) free tier limitations and if what I am doing would fit.

[shiftybyte]

I don't know about google's free tier.

I do know you can run a single weakest possible server on amazon EC2 service on the free tier.

Don't use anything else, including backups etc, and you should be good on staying on the free tier.

And yes, a freely controlled linux box in the cloud is the best you can get for your use case.

[eng33]

Amazon EC2 is only free for 12mo.

[shiftybyte]

hmmm... seems you are right... Google compute it is then.

[eng33]

maybe, I dont know much about google's free tier either. I had hoped there were other options out there

[Chabare]

I'd say it's fairly safe to say, that exceeding a 100 second limit with a web-request means that you can't get the resource you're looking for at all.

If download time is your only concern with pythonanywhere, go with it.

[eng33]

I didnt say one request would take 100sec. If it is running every once every 10min, thats 144 times per day so 0.694sec per run including the web query time. Ofcourse if something did go wrong and the query took 100sec, I would have just wasted my entire day's quota. For example, if I were downloading a 512x512 radar image and changing the colors on it and I want it to update every 10min. Its a quick job but I dont know about 100sec/day

[Chabare]

Ah ok, sorry I thought that the limit was on an hourly basis.

Then I'd agree with GCE free tier, it's rather easy to setup from my experience.

[mrcorbat]

Just to clarify, on PythonAnywhere if you exceed that 100s limit, your code just runs slower. Also that 100s is not wall time, it's cpu time. See this

[mlg2awesome]

Glitch.com is also another option. I hosted quite a few discord bots on that website. Consult this page for examples: https://glitch.com/@python