On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've just been toying around with offering local tech peeps a few free > services that I could provide pretty easily. I wonder if these things > would actually be welcomed by the tech community and worth my effort. > > Anyway, here's what I'm thinking... > > First, I'd like to offer a tiny vps (virtual private server) for free. > We're not talking about anything you'd run your business on, but it > would give people a place to play around. Because they'd be free, I'd > keep the specs very modest, something like 1 CPU, 40G disks, 512MB RAM > and a static IP (in a shared subnet). We'd offer Ubutnu LTS, CentOS > 6.X and anything else the community wanted to help make base images > for. There would be no support or guaranteed up-times. > > Next, I'd like to offer unlimited private (or public) git-based > projects on a GitLab server (http://gitlab.org/gitlab-ce/). We would > just limit the total disk space per user to 5G or something. I know > there are a ton of options out there for hosting git projects, but > most of the free stuff is for public projects. > > I'd love to hear your thoughts. Is it worth my (well, Izeni's) effort > and expense? > > I guess it depends on your goal. Because there are already tons of places that offer free development areas. Just to name a few: Free dev hosting plus other features https://koding.com/ https://c9.io https://code.google.com/ http://aws.amazon.com/ (Micro tier) Free private git hosting: https://bitbucket.org/plans https://www.assembla.com/plans What is your goal? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
