What is a good alternative to Google App Engine for hosting a small Ktor REST service for a pet proj...

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[Stefan Oltmann]

What is a good alternative to Google App Engine for hosting a small Ktor REST service for a pet project? Google App Engine now seems to have tight limits and Heroku has no free plan anymore.
I don’t want to pay anything.

I checked out Supabase, but that’s just a online database. I want to execute some Kotlin code, too.

It should be free forever, not the 12 month trial AWS has.

[hfhbd]

I use Google Cloud Run that supports scaling to zero

[griffio]

Couple of limited options - with 512MB of RAM 🐏, 0.1 vCPU 🐌, and 2GB of SSD 💽.
https://render.com/ e.g https://github.com/griffio/ktor-server-01
https://www.koyeb.com/docs/faqs/pricing#is-there-a-free-tier

[Stefan Oltmann]

Wow, koyeb makes this really quick. Just selecting the repo, it finds the Dockerfile and everything runs. 👀

That really makes me wonder why Google App Engine is such a hassle to set up.

[Stefan Oltmann]

Uh, looks like Koyeb will charge for the postgres after 1st of Februrary.

[Stefan Oltmann]

Ok, Renders Postgres was this famous "for the first 90 days". So Supabase for storing looks still like one of the best free options.

[Alejandro Rios]

Another option can be Fly.io, source:
https://hlnstepanova.github.io/kmpizza/step-31-deploy-ktor-fly-io/

[Colton Idle]

what'd you end up going with stefan? im going to play with ktor a bit and would like to have it hosted somewhere. i can pay a few bucks. so completely free isn't really necessary

[Stefan Oltmann]

Currently koyeb.com