These are some useful inputs - its definitely getting to a place where a little pocket money gives you a real environment to hobby deploy to (even professionally if you are careful i guess).
Sven - presumably this Graviton setup is an EC2 instance - and so you patch your own OS and provide any additional pieces like SSL cert etc right? (which I know you are ace at doing - but I find that that I painfully learn how to do it one month, and then 6 months later have to relearn it all again). So I'm interested in how reasonable it is to live higher up the food chain - where it seems that a Docker image insulates you (in theory) from a lot of this. Is this true - and are options like dockerize.io (or others that perhaps I am missing) viable options for the time constrained? (really appreciate all the input in this thread everyone - its very instructive) Tim On Tue, 13 Apr 2021, at 7:43 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote: > Although my main instance is on Digital Ocean, I have a test/play > instance on AWS. > > This is really hip & cool: it is an AWS Graviton 2 instance (Amazon's > own ARM64 CPU, much like Apple Silicon) [ > https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ ]. I run a small t4g.micro > instance, 1GB RAM, 8GB Disk. > > Last bill was just USD 2.89 which is crazy cheap for a full month 24/7. > > Thanks to the fact that Pharo has a full JIT VM on ARM64, this is crazy > fast as well. > > I am sure that the reason this is so cheap is the fact that it is super > efficient. > > You can try this easily for yourself. > > > On 13 Apr 2021, at 01:57, Esteban Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > What do you use that's so cheap/affordable? > > > > El lun., 12 de abril de 2021 04:48, Norbert Hartl <norb...@hartl.name> > > escribió: > > > > > > > Am 12.04.2021 um 04:02 schrieb Jeff Gray <j...@rogerthedog.com>: > > > > > > Considering easiest and cheapest, there's always self hosting, or are you > > > discounting that idea? > > > Most geeks have a bit of spare hardware laying around and broadband > > > up-speeds aren't too bad. > > > I'm guessing that if we are in the $5 a month ball park then we aren't > > > needing a guaranteed up time. > > > > > > > My cloud instance is 3€/month. With an additional 20% amount the instance > > has a backup. And setting it up is way simpler then getting dynamic DNS > > updates and all of that configured. Times have changed a bit. > > > > > > Norbert >
