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    Google Cloud vs AWS vs local host for LAMP

    I like to start a MediaWiki project (written in PHP), renting some VPS space with LAMP

    Any recommendation for local hosting? thanks...

    I was thinking about Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud and AWS. But I am hoping some local hosts can do it cheap....

    thanks..

    PS I haven't never done this before and don't know the difference between VPS. vm, docker, container, etc...

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    Look at digitalocean.com, too. They offer some prebuilt "droplets" that run LAMP (or LEMP) on Ubuntu servers.


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    You can spin up a MediaWiki container on GCE / AWS etc without having to go through setting up your server by yourself.

    Been ages since I looked at it, but it is non-trivial to setup and admin. But don't let that stop you from spinning a VM up and playing with it.

    https://bitnami.com/stack/mediawiki/cloud

    https://docs.bitnami.com/google/apps...i/#first_steps

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    Quote Originally Posted by SirNotAppearing:
    Look at digitalocean.com, too. They offer some prebuilt "droplets" that run LAMP (or LEMP) on Ubuntu servers.
    thanks..

    US$5 per month... 25GB storage!!!

    sounds great!

    but i heard oracle is free. is it true?
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    Oracle is a database, so not sure what you mean by your question. Oracle does own a proprietary version of MySQL, which is the M in LAMP.


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    Quote Originally Posted by nivek2046:
    thanks..

    US$5 per month... 25GB storage!!!

    sounds great!

    but i heard oracle is free. is it true?
    Oracle cloud have a fee tier that include a couple of VMs "free forever", yes. If you only want to play that's a good choice.

    https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/
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    I await the LAOP stack.


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    Google cloud also has a free tier

    https://cloud.google.com/free

    You are probably wasting resources if you allocate a full VPS - cheaper to use App Engine - which supports php. Or you could build a ocker cointainer and deploy it on Cloud Run...

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    If you want to build stuff yourself on a free VM vs spinning up a pre-configured container for 5$/month you must value your own time in something measurable only in VND... And if you want to do something to learn how building web applications is done, I don't think you want to stick with LAMP, which is basically the Web 1.0 tech stack....

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    Quote Originally Posted by er2:
    If you want to build stuff yourself on a free VM vs spinning up a pre-configured container for 5$/month you must value your own time in something measurable only in VND... And if you want to do something to learn how building web applications is done, I don't think you want to stick with LAMP, which is basically the Web 1.0 tech stack....
    I just want to build a wiki site... But I would like to let individual users make comments at the end of an article like the guardian, financial times, washington post, youtube, etc... can that be done?
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