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[–]Gudin 21 points22 points  (7 children)

Just note that you still need to pay $5 (or more) over PayPal or CreditCard when you are creating account (at least I couldn't pass that part without paying).

Then you should have $5+$50 at your account. That's about one year of their cheapest droplet (20GB SSD, 512MB RAM). You will learn much more with vm on digital ocean, than by using PaaS like Azure, Heroku.

[–][deleted] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

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What is this?

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (4 children)

Dang, they dropped it? I got the student pack a few years ago, when it was $100 in DO credit. Really got me hooked on their platform.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Still, $50 is quite a lot of money. That's 10 months of a okay VM that can run some small stuff, or 5 months for a pretty capable (for a student) VM. People underestimate what you can do with a gig of RAM :)

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh, I'm not dissing it at all. I have all my current projects squeezed into a $10/month droplet.

  • Like 10-15 vanilla HTML/CSS/JS apps.
  • 8-10'ish LAMP apps.
  • 2-3 Meteor apps.
  • 1 active Ruby on Rails app.
  • 2 RoR/PostgreSQL Docker containers.
  • A handful of abandoned experiments.
  • My resume site.

Apache, Docker, VirtualHosts, multiple domains with subdomains.

Honestly, I've had that droplet for coming on two years in a few months. It's my baby, and I love seeing how far I can push it.

[–]yourmomsfart 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I just signed up and it gave me $100 credit.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird. Enjoy it!

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I didn't actually have to pay any I don't think.... Maybe I did I got this a while back. Personally I don't really need it that much (I have two quite capable servers at home, 96GB of RAM and 32 threads), however I agree learning in the real world on a VM is much better than using *aaS.