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0 pointsmileswu13y ago0 comments

Amazon EC2 on the micro plan maybe? It's free for the first year as a trial.

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MikeKusold13y ago· 2 in thread

Does that plan require the cluster to spin up if you haven't had a visitor in a while? That's the reason I don't use Heroku for my personal site.

hornbaker13y ago

Regardless of where you host, if that's a problem for you, just set up a free account at Pingdom to hit it every 1 minute, and get uptime/response time monitoring as a bonus. Easy peasy.

ceejayoz13y ago

Nope, EC2 is essentially a VPS host, unlike Heroku.

gtirloni13y ago

I bought a 3-year micro instance for my personal needs and it's been pretty good.

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