[Flask] How to free hosting a Flask app with custom domain?

[Gabor Szabo]

Hi Jin,

I don't know about absolutely free options, but you could use the free tier
or free period of Google GCP, Amazon AWS, or Microsoft Azure
and have your own small VPS for a year or maybe longer. Then you switch to
the other provider or by that time you make enough money
from your site to pay for its hosting.

I personally have been using Digital Ocean ($5/month for the smallest
instance) for several years now, but AFAIK I've never paid.
I have a referral button on my site and apparently enough people are using
it so my hosting fee at DO is covered by the referral fees.
BTW I just searched for "Digital Ocean free" and saw a number of coupons
that offer you various amount of free credit for DO.

So you can try that option as well and hope that you generate enough
referrals to cover your costs.

regards
   Gabor


On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:00 PM Jin Li <lijin.abc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I want to deploy a Flask application in a free host (with MySQL for
> data storage), and I want to use my custom domain to access the host.
>
> I have tried Hosted Options at
> http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/deploying/. However, they are either
> non-free for Cloud database or non-free for custom domain redirection.
>
> Can anyone have a recommendation for my free hosting of Flask
> application with my custom domain? Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
> Jin
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