What is your recommended hosting platform?

I'm making a website+backend (react, c# + small sql db + discordjs bot) for a friends gaming community and would like to host it "soon".

Check out netlify. They have free hosting for dynamic sites, though it's more like a CI/CD thing so no persistence by default

But they do seem to offer a db service too

I think oracle cloud has the best always free options, but aws has the best tooling

@atheist God dayum their always free tier is juicy

@12bitfloat why is it called dynamic. isn't that static

@jestdotty You can run a dynamic site but your files are wiped on each build I believe

@12bitfloat yuuuppp, you can basically run a small website free pretty much forever on that. Last time I looked you had to use terraform which is a pain but now looks like they've got a cdk with python bindings https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/...

I use Contabo, it's pretty cheap because it has comparatively low availability (99%)

@lorentz I once trusted you on that hosting provider, i think i lost 10 euro on that :P It's the most oversold provider I have ever had. Also, chrome can't pay with credit card there, you need firefox. But besides that, the support there is very nice. But I was a very short customer. I had connection drops.

I give you advise that no one gives: https://www.interserver.net/vps/. 3,- per month.

But personally, you'll host probably many sites in the future for you or your friends. I am very happy that i've chosen dedicated. I went hetzner. The hardware is not really server (in exception of the nics) but dedicated, sure. If something runs bad, at least you know it's not your system, because you made it yourself and you're an expert.

@atheist omg, what is a cdk? What did i miss? Oh nooo.

@12bitfloat did you really say dayum? Go to your own country :P

@tamagotchi yeah he gave me a female YouTuber who codes but they weren't even female -.-

still bitter about that whoops lmao. I got excited. I feel like he stole part of my soul lying to me like that. not cool. probably unreliable narrator...

@tamagotchi cloud development kit, a way to describe/provision cloud resources using object-like constructs in familiar programming languages. AWS CDK was the first, others followed suit.

@jestdotty The Coding Train is a guy but he's clearly some flavor of the alphabet, I'd put money on it. And he codes cool stuff. So if you're looking for coding with a welcoming vibe, I reccomend.

@tamagotchi Hetzner decided (in 30 minutes including the appeal and rejection) that I'm not similar enough to my passport photo, so I'm not allowed to do business with them.

@atheist coding train is amazing indeed. Thanks for the explanation of cdk.

@lorentz how do they compare that?

@tamagotchi I have to believe via AI given the pace.

Localhost is quite popular. I hear many folks are using it. Needs some manual tweaking, but runs quite ok. And it's free. And the latency is unmatched

Thanks for all the suggestions, much appreciated.