#Can anyone suggest me a Free cloud deployment?
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Also the not-quite-free-but-close answer of using a local computer at home, like a RasPi or similar.
I think http://railway.app has a $5 monthly free credits on the hobby tier
If you create a free gmail account you can register for a Google cloud account with $300 credit for 90 days. When you run out you create another account. However, you ca apply for a startup program and get multiple k-USD credit.
I have a Synology NAS and Dell T330 server at home, would you recommend to deploy something on one of those rather than something like Railway?
sure?
Lol you're probably wondering "if this guy has both of those why is he asking this question?"

I run my site from a consumer chassi filserver in my livingroom using cloudflare tunnels
I have them to store my photography lol, buddy of mine helped me set it all up
I have no clue where to start with deployment
docker/containerfile, apach2 config and systemd service file (podman) https://gitlab.com/Kagee/homelab-organizer/-/tree/stable/docker?ref_type=heads https://gitlab.com/Kagee/homelab-organizer/-/tree/stable/docs?ref_type=heads
save your time & energy by not looking for free cloud options that will most likely hamstring you with various limitations
Just use the AWS Lightsail or EC2 for 5-7$ per month (around 350-700 Rupees per month) which is very cheap for starters
Gonna look into that. Doesn't tell me anything just yet but I'll look it up. Any good resources for a checklist or something? Like I know I need to change my configuration from dev to production with secret keys, debug mode, all those things. But not very experienced with this (my first deployment)
Depends a lot on of you know Linux shell, container image building, Apache/systemd config file editing etc 🤔
I know none of those lol
I've set up a VM with Ubuntu on my server last night, got that working. But deploying the actual app has not been a success :p
Tbh I did not configure Apache/Nginx yet, neither did I use Docker so still some things to look into first
Oracle Cloud has a forever free tier of 24gb ram and 200gb ssd, I haven't found any free tier that beats it
i would suggest you :
https://fly.io
https://render.com
also make sure to check periodically your app so it don't enter in sleep mode
i also noticed Alibaba cloud has some cheap VM to get your project on road, they bill for a year.
pythonanywhere
is it permanently free?
Pythonanywhere is the best
pythonanywhere supports one free django app at a time,
render supports multiple concurrent django apps but deactivates its free postgresql database after 2 weeks (or 1 month maybe).
for postgresql, you may check aivencloud