What is the platform you consider the easiest to deal with and is also easy on the money for deploying multiple side projects?
Easy man...Netlify integration with Github all the way! You can't beat Netlify for static sites...you get custom domain, free ssl, free hosting, etc
I use Google App Engine and Google Cloud Build quite a bit, although I'm starting to look at Now/Vercel.
I highly recommend AWS. There will be great courses there for you to learn all you want. Then you will be able to create things on AWS!
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I'm trying to set up a Kubernetes cluster on some VPS. So I'm managing the hosting software aspect, but not the hardware.
I'll be honest, it's probably not worth the trouble. There's a lot of trouble.
But it's really a lot cheaper than hosted Kubernetes offering, from what I can tell. And it's a good way to learn.
For static project I use netlify.com
Others I use azue or heroku
Mostly netlify, Heroku for django.
I usually go with DigitalOcean/AWS Lightsail/Cloudflare Workers.
I am oldschool so I got my own infrastructure. not really hard to do and with a bit of configuration it's possible to keep it safe and maintainable. And I can run my own virtual clusters in the background. lxc, kvm, rkt etc to the rescue so to speak.
but .... well you can say one of my side-projects is my infrastructure. If you're not interested in the overhead it provides (which I do understand not everyone really wants to know everything - like I do).
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I don't know maybe you can also access free shared hosting services ;D ....
I also prefer netlify for deploying static sites it's free and fast
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Usually, for static content, Github Pages is a solid choice. It's free, fast and is loaded with goodies. If you do modern web app development with JamStack, Github Pages is enough most of the time.
For remote procedures, I usually use Zeit / Vercel. They have a free tier and cheap prices, though their product catalog might be lacking at times.
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For the longest time, my default was DigitalOcean's $5 droplets. However, I have many projects that never see the light of day, and I started to resent paying the monthly fee for all those idle droplets. Once DigitalOcean introduced Kubernetes clusters, I containerised all my side projects, and now I run anything I need on the same $30 cluster.