I've just got an email about Heroku plans to phase...

# kvision

[Robert Jaros]

I've just got an email about Heroku plans to phase out free services 😞 It means some KVision example apps will no longer be published after November.

[ashmelev]

Robert, what are the requirements for those example? AWS has a free tier and GKE CloudRun can host 2MM requests/month for free as well...

[Robert Jaros]

The requirement is some database access

[ashmelev]

Would H2 work?

[Robert Jaros]

It should

[Robert Jaros]

Google Cloud SQL doesn't seem to be free

[Robert Jaros]

And AWS free tier is available for a year only?

[ashmelev]

No, but I am thinking a container-based deployment with H2 either in-RAM or on a persistent volume (even though it's be small)

[ashmelev]

On AWS you can launch a t2.micro and RDS (MySQL) for free for 12 months, but that just postpones the issue

[Robert Jaros]

I'll think about it ...

[Robert Jaros]

Pity ... Heroku is working really great ..

[Robert Jaros]

"If you are a maintainer on an open source project, and would like to request Heroku support for your project, contact the Salesforce Open Source Program office." - it's also an option 🙂

[ashmelev]

Yup. That sounds good - though you may get buried in forms, bureaucracy, etc

[Big Chungus]

Azure cosmosdb supports some sql drivers and have decent free tier

[Big Chungus]

Also there's very generous mongodb atlas free tier if you don't mind switching out to nosql

[Big Chungus]

Also Azure app engine free tier worked quite well for my server needs so far if you need that too

[napperley]

AWS provide promotional credits which may be a possible option for covering hosting costs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/aws-promotional-credits-open-source-projects/