On: Joyent ending "lifetime" hosting accounts

[mileswu]

Amazon EC2 on the micro plan maybe? It's free for the first year as a trial.

[MikeKusold → mileswu]

Does that plan require the cluster to spin up if you haven't had a visitor in a while? That's the reason I don't use Heroku for my personal site.

[rubyron → MikeKusold]

Regardless of where you host, if that's a problem for you, just set up a free account at Pingdom to hit it every 1 minute, and get uptime/response time monitoring as a bonus. Easy peasy.

[ceejayoz → MikeKusold]

Nope, EC2 is essentially a VPS host, unlike Heroku.

[gtirloni → mileswu]

I bought a 3-year micro instance for my personal needs and it's been pretty good.