Free Platform as a Service Providers
Free PaaS options for deving, experimenting and more It seems that almost all the major Platform as a Service providers offer some kind of free plan. I thought to share a few of them for others to see and benefit. They are especially useful if you are trying to learn a new technology and try out different service providers. Careful, don't get locked in The providers have realized that most customers don't want to change providers once they have passed the learning curve on one provider. As a customer you should however be ready to move your deployment as quickly as possible. You can do this by avoiding the proprietary technologies provided by the service providers or at least abstract their usage in a way that makes it easy to rewrite those parts if you change providers. AppEngine is good example of a provider that offers a wide range of proprietary technologies that will make moving your deployment away from there diff...