Ookma-Kyi

Ookma-Kyi

Free Phoenix hosting options?

I am learning Elixir and Phoenix at the moment. I would like to know where I can get free hosting for my open-source Phoenix app. I know Oracle Cloud has a free tier, but unfortunately. It seems there hasn’t been any availability for the past month for always-free apps. I read Fly.io had a free tier at one point, but they seem to have discontinued it. I beleive the only free option right now is Gigalixir but, it seems they delete your apps if you don’t deploy often. Any suggestions?

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sodapopcan

sodapopcan

If your bill amounts to $5 or less, Fly doesn’t charge you. Depending on your usage it often ends up being free.

derek-zhou

derek-zhou

I suggest to go with a cheap paid plan; more sustainable for both you and the hosting company: they made money off you and you see a bill and will use the resource wisely. Major hoster usually charge ~5 USD per month for the lowest plan, but there are even cheaper ones here:https://lowendbox.com/

BrightEyesDavid

BrightEyesDavid

https://northflank.com/ - 2 services/apps and an instance of PostgreSQL, in which you can have multiple databases, for free. I’m now a paying customer.

Also, https://www.koyeb.com/

You can use Phoenix’s production Docker method for both: Deploying with Releases — Phoenix v1.8.8

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a3kov

a3kov

You would need to be careful about the resources: use only the right VM types, make sure total RAM/oCPU/storage volumes across all VMs doesn’t exceed the free plan allowance. It’s not very hard, but it requires to understand what you are doing.
You can also set alerts if your bill exceeds a certain amount, but I’ve never needed it.

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