Another great service I suggest using

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So I haven’t been active as of late again, but I would like to share a really useful piece of website to you all that has helped me for the few pass couple of months. I know you all might suggest Digital Oceans which is a very great service, but for those who don’t have money and don’t want to spend money. I suggest using codeanywhere. codeanywhere has been out there for a bit and I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned it before, but it’s good for 2 free uses. You can create containers for your preferred language. There’s a bunch of containers ranging from PHP to Ruby to Java. They all use CentOS or Ubuntu so you get to work with the Linux kernel. Best part, you get free SSH access so you can use Linux commands.

I haven’t been using it for long, but I feel like it’s a great way to test out a lot of your scripts if you don’t feel like purchasing a live server and you don’t have time at home to do any tests. You can also trash the containers if you want, but be wise because you only get 2 free uses. After that, you’ll have to purchase. However, you can just create new accounts and you should be good. I don’t recommend that, but it’s your choice.

I forgot to also mention that they also provide FTP so if you own a live server, you can access your live server with their FTP access. They also have an app where you can code on your mobile device.

Let me know what you all think.

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I can’t say that DigitalOcean is hard to afford while their simpliest VPS cost you less than $0.01/hour
Do you have anything more than 2 free containers?

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The containers are mostly for developing on. They have this feature that I didn’t get to use before I trashed my original container. Maybe then I would still have some of my old files. But the feature basically tracks and stores old history of the file. So if you happen to replace it by accident, you can restore the file back to normal. It usually makes a backup each time you make a change or save to the file.

But this is for people who don’t really want to spend a dime on something. You still get the same features as you do with a paid Digital Ocean VM. And most of these containers are Linux based so you can use sudo apt-get and sudo yum if you want. The other day, I was messing around with one of my containers and I actually got a hold of my .bashrc file and I replaced it with one of mine so I was able to create some new alias commands. Sometimes, free hosters won’t even let you do that so it’s a nice thing they let you take full control over your containers.

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