jsonify
So, is Heroku the only free option for hosting Phoenix/Elixir at this point? I’m not ready to commit to paying monthly and was wondering what kind of options are out there for the Free tier and what peoples’ experience with them are.
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sysashi
I personally have tried:
AWS - free tier
GAE - free tier (Google Cloud now :))
Digital Ocean - (Github Student Pack pack promo for 50$, you need to have an email address which ends with *.edu)
dgamidov
@jsonify, I am using machine in cloud (CentOS).
thousandsofthem
Heroku - their deployment process is quote good.
With their new billing mechanism you can get for free either
jesse
@jsonify, gigalixir.com now has a free tier, no credit card required. It’s very similar to Heroku except that it supports node clustering, hot upgrades, and remote console. It doesn’t restart your processes every 24 hours, restrict you to arbitrary simultaneous connections per instance, or limit each connection to an arbitrary number of seconds.
I’m the founder, feel free to reach out to me for help.
Eiji
@thousandsofthem: How sleeping is working with Phoenix Channels? I need to reconnect and authenticate again or all connection/channels are automatically restored?
Eiji
@jesse: How many projects I can run in free tier? Do I have 24/7 without restart connection (especially Phoenix WebSocket). Which deployment tool(s) did you tested? Any tutorials? I don’t need it currently, but it’s really interesting to bookmark and use in (hope) near future.
jesse
You get 1 app instance and 1 postgres instance for free. Yes, 24/7 no restarts except in extreme circumstances. We currently only support Distillery. There is a “tutorial” for modifying an existing Phoenix app [1] and one for using the gigalixir-getting-started template repo [2].
[1] Moved — GIGALIXIR 1.4.0 documentation
[2] Moved — GIGALIXIR 1.4.0 documentation
jesse
Fwiw, gigalixir free tier does not sleep.
enkr1
Any news in 2024?
ostap
Apps: fly.io.
Postgres-compatible database: CockroachDB Serverless
There is also: GitHub - ripienaar/free-for-dev: A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev · GitHub
You can also get a tiny ARM cloud instance from Hetzner for € 3.79 a month, and host a couple of apps there. But it would require some management. (a few commands from tutorials to set things up, comes with experience as a bonus)