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# 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
* https://nodequery.com/ - Free basic server monitor up to 10 servers
* https://www.pingdom.com/free/ - 1 site free
## 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
* http://mailchimp.com/ - Send 12,000 emails to 2,000 subscribers for free
## CDN and Protection
* http://www.cloudflare.com/ - Basic service is free, good for a blog etc
* http://www.bootstrapcdn.com/ - CDN for bootstrap, bootswatch and font awesome
## 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
* https://developer.rackspace.com/ - Rackspace Cloud gives $50/month for 12 months
## 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