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Lightsail services from Amazon are FAST and super easy to set up.
https://aws.amazon.com/free/compute/lightsail/

Notice the free up there?  You can actually access a lot of services for free for a year:
https://aws.amazon.com/free/

Use their free tools to build what you need (website, database, bots, etc) and then apply for $1,000 in free AWS credits:
https://aws.amazon.com/activate/

^^ It's very easy to get, as long as you are a real person with an idea.  They are not going to give it away for scams.  :)

An amazing/awesome service am already on the site and it already Interestingly exciting -registering was mad simple/east- this is a must have, -am going to get this Information across-. And the free trial -a month- wow climax/icing on the cake.

Is there any KYC required to use the free tier? And what are the capabilities of it?

I currently use Heroku free tier, I can have 1 web server running 24/7 and there's a free database limited to 10k rows (this sucks). Does AWS offer something similar or better?

Also, Github has free hosting for static pages (sites that don't require server-side logic), this can be pretty good for beginners too.

You can also host website and store other tools for a year individually on three other cloud service providers and they are

1. Google Cloud (http://"https://cloud.google.com/")
2. Alibaba Cloud (http://"https://in.alibabacloud.com/en")
3. Microsoft azure (http://"https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/")

All of the above listed cloud storage website do offer Wordpress hosting free for one year.
 

Sorry everyone, I got the products confused.  

While Lightsail is a great service for those on a budget (not that fast), it is only free for one month.

The better solution is https://aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk.   It is very fast and free for at least a year.  It's what I'll be using for my Club services.

You only pay for what you use - CPU, storage and bandwidth, and the free tier limits are quite generous.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask.   I am studying to be an AWS cloud consultant.  :)


https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/

I don't think any KYC is needed, other than the credit card and billing address should you go over your free limits.  They just sell services - they don't do anything with crypto.

There are no limits - it scales instantly as you need it.  You only get charged for what you use.    Free tier can have you run a web service and 20GB relational database 24 hours per day.  :)

You need a billing address at all times even when just using the free tier and you got to list one at sign-up. Also while it's a generously long free tier covering 1 server (t2.micro if you want details with 2 cores, 1GB memory and a 30GB ssd disk) for 12 months, these resources are quite constraining for web servers especially the memory.

Lightsail and Elastic Beanstalk both use EC2 internally which charges an egress fee (even during the free tier) if the amount of upload traffic exceeds a certain number of gigabytes per month, so my take is that hosting with the above mentioned free server is only suitable for small sites.

Of course there are thousands of people and orgs hosting on AWS and it's possible to rent a decent spec server that can handle enough traffic for medium sized sites for like $27/month - the t3a.medium with 4GB memory, or if it's only going to run linux web hosting software it'll probably work on their ARM64 servers as well so if that's the case I recommend a1.large at $37/month which has crazy fast network speeds with a 10Gbit line and that server's CPUs aren't throttled at 10% or 20% per core or at some other crippling rate like the t2* and t3* servers are (although you can turn that off it's not worth the price increase. Network speed is also throttled from the advertised rate and can't be turned off).

Basically if you're just using common software then their ARM64 servers have a better price/performance ratio and aren't throttled or limited in any way. T2 and T3 are their budget servers for running smaller things on.

The best part about AWS is the storage is billed separately from the server itself so the 30GB ssd I mentioned above is billed by itself. This means you only have to pay for whatever server type suits you and ride on the free tier storage you get, it's more than enough storage for web hosting anyway, each extra gigabyte adds +$0.1/month to the billing statement and the SSD ensures performance isn't throttled by slow disk read speeds. The database is also billed separately so you get a decent DB size for free as well.

And of course run all your servers in us-east-1, it has the cheapest rates of all regions. It also has more temporary outages than the others but for small projects they shouldn't be a big problem.

12 months is really not enough, a lot of devs have small hobby projects that don't generate income but require running a web server, like for example mine Bitcointalk Notifier (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5178331.msg52246100). It will soon be 1 year old, so if I hosted it on AWS, I'd have to go offline pretty soon.


Seems like Heroku free tier is better - it's permanent and afaik you'll never get charged if you go over some hidden limits.

Idk about american banks, but mine allows me to freely issue virtual payment cards, and I created one with charging limit set to zero to get Heroku's free tier, just in case they'll try to charge me for something.

Do you mean 20 GB is the bandwidth or the size of the database? Is there a quota for usage access, some web server providers refuse to use a credit card, can I use a virtual credit card for activation on Amazon?





Last month I tried Microsoft Azure, only got 1 month free. How to get free server for 1 year?

It's 20 Gb of disk space of course. I even doubt AWS has a bandwidth limit or it shall be quite high and scalable.
I've seen people using VCCs but if they work like Amazon does, you shouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work




Azure advertises 12 months for free but there is a catch. 12 months is the period during which you can use their services, but each of them has a limit. When you visit the website's offer and check for example Linux VMs you get 750 hours for free to use within 12 months (750h=1 month). If it's QnA Maker, you get 3 days to use within 12 months, or 250 GB of SQL Database for 12 months