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title: "Comment by Bruce Wells on \"A path to hosting personal projects for free on the cloud\" | Hashnode"
description: "Interesting article. Thanks for explanation. I would watch out for unexpected surges causing you to exceed AWS free limits. I don't know AWS, but I would in"
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Comment [A path to hosting personal projects for free on the cloud](https://hashnode.com/posts/a-path-to-hosting-personal-projects-for-free-on-the-cloud/638669b4aab052e45708b3f3)

[Bruce Wells](https://hashnode.com/@PHPFUI)

[Dec 1, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/a-path-to-hosting-personal-projects-for-free-on-the-cloud/638669b4aab052e45708b3f3/comment/6388e6dca347f35e460d0ef8)

Interesting article. Thanks for explanation.

I would watch out for unexpected surges causing you to exceed AWS free limits. I don't know AWS, but I would investigate anything that would limit costs automatically. I have heard horror stories.

As you note, you are pretty much locked into AWS. My solution as a PHP person is to host on Ionos for $8.50 (including tax) a month (cheaper plans available). KISS deployment is a git pull, delete a few files and run new migrations. Super simple and reliable. Especially for a lower volume site. And it is extremely portable to an Linux host with cron and git support.

[Eduardo Matsuoka](https://hashnode.com/@edumats)

[Dec 1, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/a-path-to-hosting-personal-projects-for-free-on-the-cloud/638669b4aab052e45708b3f3/comment/6388e6dca347f35e460d0ef8#reply-6389090d4daa045d691f2eba)

Thanks for your thoughtful considerations, Bruce. I just experienced an issue on free tier, as I forgot to delete some DynamoDB tables and, although they weren't being used, they were consuming my free tier capacity, as they reserve some capacity by default. Luckily for me, AWS Budgets sends by default an alert e-mail when a service consumes more than 85% of its free tier limit. It is possible to create custom alerts on it, as well.

I did a quick look on Ionos and I assumed you are using Deploy Now, is this right? Unfortunately it supports only PHP apps:disappointed:

I am not too concerned with the AWS lock at this moment, as looking their past actions, cloud services costs tend to go lower over time and they usually get better in usability and features.

[Bruce Wells](https://hashnode.com/@PHPFUI)

[Dec 1, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/a-path-to-hosting-personal-projects-for-free-on-the-cloud/638669b4aab052e45708b3f3/comment/6388e6dca347f35e460d0ef8#reply-6389113da347f35e460d13a6)

[Eduardo Matsuoka](https://hashnode.com/@edumats), glad to hear you caught it in time. I think going over free limits is their business model.

I just use basic Linux hosting, I have written the entire site myself, and yes, all PHP, nothing from Ionos except the basics, MySQL, git, cron, IMAP, etc. I am going to open source my code sometime next year, I will write up the architecture some point on my Hashnode blog: [blog.phpfui.com](https://blog.phpfui.com/)