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What free things online should everyone take advantage of? (lemmy.world)

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What free resources do you know on the internet that everyone should use?

Potential Category Ideas

FOSS Software
Quality of Life
Public Services
Other List of Lists
Personal Finance
Github Awesome Repositories
Firefox Addons
Free Research/Books
Piracy Sites & Lists
Real Life Resources

Links and Resources

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[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 25 points 9 months ago

Free tier cloud services like AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud, and Azure. I use free tier VMs to host random services like VPNs, Mastodon instance, etc.

Tailscale has a free tier to connect your devices, VMs, and home servers.

GitHub pages is great for hosting any simple website for free.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 9 points 9 months ago

Free tier VMs are limited, so are you just signing up for new AWS accounts once a month?

[-] aidan@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

GCP compute engine is completely free for the basic tier.

[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

AWS & Azure don't offer free VMs but they offer other always free cloud services. I use Oracle Cloud's Always Free VMs which are great. You can get two AMD-based compute VMs and one Arm-based compute VM with 24GB of RAM. I've been using them for nearly 2 years now. GCP also has a more basic always free VM offering.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

Ok, but, Oracle Cloud…🤮

Jokes aside, that’s pretty cool, thanks for the info

[-] fidodo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Don't forget about cloudflare. With their free caching and cdn a well optimized site can run for barely anything. With GitHub actions and pages you can have a fully static site hosted completely for free.

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