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Possibly free Linux cloud host (or not) for "training"? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to monthly rent a VPS in the very near future to host a website, a Peertube instance and an email server as minimum. But despite having used Linux as a home operative system for 3 years, I pretty much known nothing to properly secure online services.

So I want to first have a "dummy" cloud system where I can mess around with configurations and everything without risking losing money while I am still learning.

While typing this it crossed my mind I could also create a virtual network in Virtualbox, at least when I used it on Windows years ago it allowed you to do it. Could this also work? To create two virtual machines under the same network with one acting as server and one as client?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Your virtual box solution should work. You can even set it up to grab an IP from your actual network so it’s right on your LAN.

Digital Ocean is really straight forward has $5/mo VPS, one click K8s, monitoring, etc.

This is my referral code that I believe gives you $200 in credit over 2 months.

https://m.do.co/c/cb6d78945519

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oracle has 2 free ARM instances.

I use one as a VPN endpoint.

Other one I might try playing with SOCKs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know, but apparently my bank doesn't trust it and blocks the account verification.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah damn. I'm sorry, that sucks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm looking for the same thing. I found VPSWALA but the website makes this corp look untrustworthy… But of you try it, please tell us how it is!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

https://paul.totterman.name/posts/free-clouds/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Azure, AWS and GCP all provide free credits along with free VMs for periods of time

Edit - client/server VMs on a single machine, yes absolutely possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you!

If you can, how much time do you estimate those free credits would last if I am just myself using them?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Depends what you do! Each have price calculators you can use to estimate cost. It’s usually all pay as you go, and hourly. You can always shut VMs down when not used to reduce payment.

At least with Azure they also have very small VMs on a free tier which wouldn’t use any credits up