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Best-Backend-hosting-server-for-free
Service Type RAM Storage Limitations
AWS EC2 IaaS 1 GB Only free for 1 year
Azure App Service PaaS 1 GB 1 GB 60 CPU minutes/day
Azure VM IaaS 1 GB 2 GB (non-persistent) Only free for 1 year
Google App Engine PaaS 128 MB 1 GB Standard Environment only
Limited to Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python; 1 GB/day outbound traffic; 9 backend instance hours/day
Google Compute Engine IaaS 0.6 GB 30 GB 1 GB/month outbound traffic (not including China or Australia). After the first year there's no way to avoid accidental overage fees
Heroku PaaS 512 MB Non-persistent Idling after 30 minutes inactivity, limited to 550 hours/month
IBM Cloud Foundry PaaS 256 MB Sleep after 10 days, deleted after 30 days of no "development activity"
OpenShift Online v3 PaaS 2 GB 2 GB Free subscriptions expire after 60 days (can resubscribe for free)
Idling after 30 minutes inactivity, hibernates 18 out of 72 hours
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ghost commented Jun 16, 2023

OCI A1 Flex Ampere are very powerful and free to use forever if you don't raise many of them.
I created an automation to deploy them along with a demo backend app:

https://dev.to/vitalipom/small-open-source-backend-server-to-start-with-4ngo

https://github.com/VitaliPom/portfolioorchstra

Tested 100% Working!

Requires a mac. Can and preferable to be run from Mac VM (see description in links).

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