free-for-dev/README.md

# free-for-dev
Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers but it can be hard to find them all in order to make informed decisions.

This then is a list of software, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS etc offerings that have free tiers for devs.  

You can help by sending Pull Requests to add more services. Once I have a good set of link in this README file I'll look into a better layout for the information and links, help with that appreciated too.

If you're not inclined to make PRs you can tweet me at ```@ripienaar```

## Source Code Repos

  * https://bitbucket.org/ - Unlimited public and private git repos for small teams

## Management Systems

  * https://opbeat.com/ - release, deploy, monitor.  Free for 3 users

## Monitoring

  * https://www.datadoghq.com/ - Free for up to 5 nodes
  * http://www.stackdriver.com/ - Free for up to 10 nodes/services
  * http://newrelic.com/ - Free with 24 hour data retention

## Search

  * https://swiftype.com – hosted search solution (API and crawler). Free for a single search engine with up to 1000 documents. Free upgrade to Premuim level for open-source projects.

## Email
  * http://www.mailgun.com/ - First 10 000 emails are free

## CDN and Protection
  * http://www.cloudflare.com/ - Basic service is free, good for a blog etc
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## PaaS

  * http://aws.amazon.com/free/ - AWS Free Tier - free for 12 months
  * https://cloud.google.com/compute/ - Google Cloud Platform gives $300 over 60 days
  * https://www.engineyard.com - Engine Yard provides 500 free hours
  * http://azure.microsoft.com/ - MS Azure gives $200 worth of free usage for a trial
  * https://appharbor.com/ - A .Net PaaS that provides 1 free worker
  * https://www.heroku.com/ - Host your apps in the cloud, free for single process apps
  * https://bluemix.net/ - IBM PaaS with a monthly free allowance
  * https://www.openshift.com/ - RedHat OpenShift offers 3 free hosted apps
  * https://bitnami.com/ - One free small app

## IaaS

  * https://exoscale.ch/ - Free resources for Open Source projects
  * https://mongolab.com/ - Free 500MB MongoDB 
  * https://cloudant.com/ - Hosted database from IBM, free if usage is below $50/month

## SSO and other Authentication Systems

  * https://auth0.com/ - hosted free for development SSO
  * https://getclef.com/ - new take on auth unlimited free tier for anyone not using premium features

## Issue tracking etc

   * https://www.atlassian.com/opensource/overview - Free Jira etc for Open Source projects

## Storage
  
   * https://www.aerofs.com/ - behind-the-firewall dropbox, free for 30 users

## Docker Related
### Alternate container hosting

  * https://quay.io/ - unlimited free public containers