• ProfessionalHandJob@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    They changed this always free tier previously.

    Don’t believe anything they say because they will remove additional features. I guarantee it.

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      1 year ago

      if you reread my post its more for learning and playing with more hardware than you get with AWS.

      I’m not suggestion people run critical services or data here

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        1 year ago

        The issue I have is they removed the ability to use a custom domain and DNS. Happened sometime between 2019 and 2021. I have an old pdf I made showing the long removed options.

        That kneecapped the service for a lot of people years back. Without a way to access it externally, playing with hardware was no use.

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          1 year ago

          is there any reason you couldn’t just point a domain you own to the IP address of the instances?

          For me its working and I serve the SSL certificate from the homer page or w/e

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            1 year ago

            It wasn’t externally accessible after they removed the entire section from their gui.

            Perhaps they added it back after people left. I tried again in 2021 and that wasn’t an option nor was internal IPs only after being able to do what you described previously.

            But the point remains that they have changed their terms previously, and pray they don’t alter them any further.

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              1 year ago

              yeah idk maybe they changed it but i have an externally accessible IP where I can access my apps on different ports and I can point my domain to that IP with no problems. Homer has some functionality to serve the SSL cert and that is within the instance, it wouldn’t matter if its a laptop at home or whichever cloud.

              One thing you may have run into is that you have to open ports in the security group so if you didn’t do that then its “not accessible”