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Yea, they are very useful for small sites. The bigger problem for me was to find a free backend hosting service, I've only found 3 free and all of them were pretty limiting: Heroku (the instances go to sleep and take 30+ secs to wake up), IBM cloud (256MB memory limit), Azure (pretty complicated, need a credit card for the free tier).

I was looking for a solution where I can host Java Spring/ASP.net toy projects easily and none of them were satisfactory

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If you ping your heroku instance every 5 minutes it won't go to sleep and you'll still be within the free tier limits.

Oracle cloud has some pretty good freebies. https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev#major-cloud-provid...

Check out google cloud run, you can run containers super cheaply

Do you dare to post the URL of your “super cheap to run” could run instance to test that theory?

(My point being you’ll need cloud flare DDOS protection or something similar, and I’m not sure I’d classify that as “super cheap” if we are comparing against “free”.

Don’t get me wrong, Cloud run is certainly an amazing product, I love it slot. It is also cheap to run as long as you don’t run into any hiccups. However, It’s ability to generate a personal $1000 or $10000 credit card bill disqualifies it from being a good candidate for small to medium projects. It is clearly an enterprise product.

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