Christian studying via The Hebrew Bible by Robert Alter as well as watching Bible Project classroom along with their podcast.
Foster / adoptive family in NC, USA preparing to help lead a local ministry to aid other such families in the area.
Professional game designer and PHP developer.
Yeah, bigger solutions like Azure, AWS, etc. have some cool features especially for scaling but… that comes with its own headaches.
For earlier stages I personally much prefer a simple VPS where I can freely do what I want with it including total wipes, snapshots / rollbacks, etc.
If you’re comfortable working on a local VM then perhaps a VPS such as Linode or Digital Ocean would be a good place to start; they’re essentially VMs hosted in cloud you have total control of so you can install whatever you want just like a local VM. Even the cheapest VPS option is plenty for this sort of testing.
These have free trials too such as: https://www.linode.com/tux
I was searching for Reddit alternatives and found a rather long list that included which were open source, federated, had apps, etc. and that’s where I first heard about Lemmy. As I was browsing the different sites I found additional people talking about Lemmy specifically and that got me to research further and eventually join.
Cool concept! And congrats on getting it up and running :)