I’m wondering if university email allow you to get free server that you could try self hosting on it on any service
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Cloud options:
- Microsoft Azure offers credits for edu emails I think, and I think you can renew it annually. Also check their B1 servers. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students
- Google free tiers: https://docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#free-tier
- AWS | Not sure on this one, their website is confusing, but look into it: https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/
- GitHub “student developer pack” https://education.github.com/pack
- Oracle cloud “always free” options, bottom of this page: https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
- InterServer(never heard of them before) offers 1 year of web hosting: https://my.interserver.net/student_signup.php
Self-Host locally options:
Honestly you can probably find a N100 or N150 miniPC online for cheap, like $200 USD or less. Install Proxmox(or just install Ubuntu or whatever), install Docker+DockHand, and then install Tailscale and from your laptop/computer with Tailscale on it. You’ll be able to remotely access it, spin up whatever servers you want, and I doubt your campus IT will even see anything due to the tailnet mesh.
If you’re not living on campus, then even better, just self host your own stuff.
In the old days, university IT put essentially no access controls on their networks, so students’ dorm computers were completely exposed to the internet. Any service you started was immediately, globally accessible. Some big sites, including slashdot and facebook, got their start in some kid’s dorm room. I feel like access controls really got going in the early 00’s - first for residential, then for broader campus.
Check with your IT people - they may have policy or conditions under which they will expose ports on your personal computer to the internet. Otherwise, your best bet is probably free-tier AWS or Oracle.
Not free, but there are some ‘KVM VPS’ providers out there that will rent you a small, internet exposed computer pretty cheap. They can be a good platform for experimenting with self-hosting services, without exposing your personal equipment or home network. eg: 1CPU/1GB RAM/24GB SSD $12/year https://my.racknerd.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=903
You can get some free credit for a few services with a university email. See https://education.github.com/pack
my uni did offer student access to aws and azure, however these were limited such as only having like 100 bucks in credit, youd usually only also get this if you were enrolled into the respective units such as a cloud computing class
You could get a free server from Oracle (OCI),/even without a Uni email.
If so, why nobody talks about? Could I setup rss server there?
Because it’s run by One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.
Because Oracle has the tendency to delete VMs without prior notice.
This happened to our Minecraft server LOL
Only if you do something they don’t like, or generate way too much traffic.
I’ve been using it responsibly just fine for 5 years.
On a more serious note.
As you aren’t paying for the compute your stuff will be turned off when a paying customer wants capacity.
All the cloud vendors do this Azure calls it Spot pricingIt’s a bit of a bitch, and they can kill it at the drop of a hat.
On their ARM platform you get something like 8 cores and 24GB of RAM. Honestly, that’ll run a hell of a lot more than an RSS server.
I have one that’s running three different minecraft servers simultaneously.
Check your university’s policies. Unless you can justify it as related to your education, you probably won’t be allowed to do it if they notice it.
Edit: I thought you meant running your self-hosted services on the university’s servers.
