Deploy Docassemble on Oracle Cloud's Free and Powerful Ampere VM
Sci-fi depiction of a supercomputer generated by DALL·E 2 Background I have been using Amazon Lightsail to run docassemble instances since 2020. I would recommend this approach for those starting out with cloud hosting and who can afford a minimum spend of $20 a month. Lightsail abstracts a lot of the complexity and configuration options that are typically present with offerings from AWS, Azure and GCP (with the same compute capacity typically also being about half the price). For a quick-start guide to getting going with a Lightsail deployment, see the guide provided by Suffolk's Legal Innovation & Technology Lab. I have been meaning to explore alternative cloud hosting platforms like Digital Ocean and Hetzner, which I suspect might be more cost effective, but am yet to get round to it. Then, a couple of months ago, I came across a reference to 'Oracle's free 4vCPU, 24GB RAM machine' in a comments thread discussing Windmill (a really interesting sounding open s...