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What free things online should everyone take advantage of? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/asklemmy@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

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[–] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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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