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%)

@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.

@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.

@netikras Yo check out my new site I built: https://127.0.0.1:8080/cool.php

@12bitfloat wow, nice pics! Are they yours?