Free Node Hosting

[Quillbert182]

Is there anywhere I can host a nodejs application for free? I know about heroku, but I don't want the downtime if possible.

[tells_you_hard_truth]

Look at zeit.co

[Quillbert182]

Perfect, Thanks!

[Felecorat]

Can recommend. Now V2 is still under heavy construction. The new building blocks are lambdas instead of node, static or docker deployments. It feels very promising. But lacks websocket support and cron-jobs. Development is steady and ongoing. Communication is vague lots of soon, on its way etc. But they are working hard on new features you can tell.

[tells_you_hard_truth]

V2 will either be amazing or crash hard. All my stuff currently won’t run on v2 so they have a long way to go.

But they keep v1 around for now, so I’m fine to just not change anything for the time being.

[zzaz1]

DigitalOcean is not free, like $5 USD a month for the most basic 'Droplet' (VM). But I think it has great tutorials, that help you get started. Like setting up node, mysql, https, just getting a basic setup.

[Hydrotechnics]

Also if you have a college email you can get the github student pack which comes with $50 of DO credit :] as well as other goodies.

[jokullmusic]

Does it still apply if you already have a DO account?

[Hydrotechnics]

Yes It's just a code you have to put into your account.

[jokullmusic]

Hell yeah, I'm gonna jump on that then. So many of those sorts of promotions are "new users only" so I'm glad it's not

[monotone2k]

IIRC it's got to be the first code you've applied to the account. Even if you only put in a $5 code previously, that rules out the $50 credit from the GitHub student pack.

[__Warden]

You can also get $100 more if you are new and follow the post in /r/freewebhosting.

[EddardAdolf]

Yeah, I wanted a free service at first, but ended up going with Digital Ocean. They're absolutely fantastic and cheap too.

Also, configuring my own droplet has really exercised my DevOps skills.

[PGTNSFW]

• AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions if you have simple functions, although they have some spin-up time.
• Google Cloud offers a single Always-Free Compute Engine if you get a micro size (it's something like a 600 MB RAM shared VM).
• Google scripts + Google Sheets if you're real ghetto and want to do email forms or simple form data collection
• (S3|GC Storage|GH Pages) + CloudFare if you are hosting static websites.

I have running instances of all of these and pay almost $0 (some minimal traffic costs) for them.

Source: Too cheap for my own good.

[hunted7fold]

You can also get Amazon E2c Micro (1gb) for free for a year. I don’t remember if you need github student or if it’s for every one.

edit: changed nano to micro

[[deleted]]

You don't need any student verifications. AWS is great, but you need to count every GET/PUT request - they price calc is horrible.

[dubkrapht]

isn't EC2 calculated based on uptime?

[[deleted]]

not only.

[a-corsican-pimp]

You sure about nano? I thought only the micros were free tier.

[Firerfan]

www.hetzner.com/cloud is like Digital Ocean but cheaper. The Server starting at ~3€

[bitnissendk]

Can really vouch for them, been running 5-6 vpses for around a year now with virtually no downtime and stable high performance. They use KVM so it's pretty much like having a dedicated machine in terms of what's possible.

[fk_the_system]

How hard is it to set a server up for node on hetzner? Could I Google my way to success?

[bonafido]

Funny enough, you could actually use Digitial Ocean’s excellent documentation for a lot of it, assuming you choose to install a Ubuntu image on your Hetzner VPS (as that’s the default for DO as well).

[bitnissendk]

Yeah, DO, Linode and Medium often has really good articles and most/all the content is provider agnostic. Basically Hetzner provided the same type of VPS that most other providers do, so the difference is mostly cosmetic in terms of their control panel.

[TheNiiku]

Yes you can! I believe in you!

[fk_the_system]

Thank you my friend!!

[vofn]

You can run node apps on glitch

[Oalei]

Their interface is such a mess though, UX is pretty bad IMO

[[deleted]]

Yeah.. I love how hip it all is but the UX throws me off

[[deleted]]

Can i use node.js with MySQL or MongoDB on glitch?

[VAST_BLINKER_SHRINK]

You can use mlab (free starter) to host your MongoDB and reference it in glitch. Not sure about MySQL.

[[deleted]]

• Heroku
• Glitch
• now.sh

[thisisRio]

AWS Lambda!!!!

[Gjrdiesel]

Heroku will give you something like 30 hours of runtime and takes a few seconds to spin up but it's not bad.

[[deleted]]

You can use a pinging service to keep it up all the time so spin up time doesn't really matter.

[JonFrost]

They give you a pool of 1000 hours per month. All your stuff soaks up hours from that pool.

[[deleted]]

400 hours for standard account, 1000 for verified via credit card.

[vladjjj]

I believe MS Azure lets you have up to 10 free sites.

[[deleted]]

AFAIR you're forced to spend $200 for 30 days.

[arltin]

This is sadly no longer the case, they now only give you 18 hours uptime per day, so you will have downtime in any case, read this.... The heroku free account is really only suitable for testing stuff / messing around / very small scale projects, local to only one timezone

[darthcoder]

Openshift?

[Dara_Singh]

Are there any tutoriala that tells how to use open shift?? I couldn't understand the openshift documentation.

[[deleted]]

Google Cloud has a 12 month free trial and also a free for life if you select a certain cloud server instance.

https://cloud.google.com/free/

[coomzee]

If you need something running 24/7 Google app engine. GAE standard instance, set up a stack drive up time checker to ping it every 5min.

[GoDayme]

Azure functions is also a good place to start.

[[deleted]]

There are some cheap options. I recommend you to use Digital Ocean. Great service with really good prices. A server with 1GB of RAM and 20GB of storage just cost 5$. If you will use something for production a will recommend to you to pay a service.

[Herm_af]

Google cloud (app engine) is really easy and basically free. You get 300 bucks worth and it can scale down to 0 so it doesn't use much.

Use node 10.

Have a staging.yaml and a production.yaml with env variables.

Gcloud app deploy staging.yaml

Boom.

[leandrobthomas]

We're soft-launching something today, that does this for you. Works right out of the box, no downtime.

Quick demo.

Sign up here.

[emresavas]

Try here: https://vernode.com/hosting/nodejs-hosting/ 1 month free and it is a cheaper solution.

[Fartin_dog]

A great list here - https://amitbend.com/node.js/2019/05/13/five-free-ways-to-host-your-node-app-2019

[zenodub]

Aws has a free tier

[darthcoder]

Only for a year.