SC DUG August 2019

After a couple months off, SC DUG met this month with a presentation on super cheap Drupal hosting.

Chris Zietlow from Mindgrub, Will Jackson from Kanopi Studios, and I all gave short talks very cheap ways to host Drupal 8.

Chris opened by talking about using AWS Micro servers. Will shared a solution using a Raspberry Pi for a fully wireless server. I closed the discussion with a review of using Drupal Tome on Netlify.

We all worked from a loose set of rules to help keep us honest and prevent overlapping:

Rules for Cheap D8 Hosting Challenge

The goal is to figure out the cheapest D8 hosting that would actually function for a project, even if it is deeply irresponsible to actually use.

Rules

1. It has to actually work for D8 (so modern PHP version, working database, etc),
2. You do not actually have to spend the money, but you do need to know all the steps required to make it work.
3. It needs to honor the TOS for any networks and services you use (no illegal network taps – legal hidden taps are fair game).
4. You have to share your idea with the other players so we don’t have two people propose the same solution (first-come-first-serve on ideas).

Reporting

Be prepared to talk for about 5 minutes on how your solution would work.  Your talk needs to include:

1. Estimated Monthly cost for the first year.
2. Steps required to make it work.
3. Known weaknesses.

If you have a super cheap hosting solution for Drupal 8 we’d love to hear about it.