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Hello,

Are there any linux VPS that allow you to deploy a JSF and Mysql application for free without asking to enter billing information.
I tried other methods other than VPS like Heroku and other similar sites but they require billing information to be able to do tests.

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Unfortunately, any commercial hosting site is probably going to want to sell you something.

Amazon does provide free services for low-load needs, but even they are going to want a credit card. While it used to be that the cheap/free servers were not sufficiently capable of running JEE, I think even the minimal AWS VM has enough RAM for a Tomcat-based server these days. Other options might be Elastic Beanstalk, or if you prefer, maybe something bundled in Spring Boot.

For myself, I run a complete in-house enterprise-grade server farm, but that may be a bit much for you.

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Yes, the days of free basic Java hosting are long gone.

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Hi all,
First thanks for answering.
There is another method which consists of converting the laptop to a web server but this requires having a public IP address.
knowing that I use a 4G router, the IP address allocated by the ISP is a private address and i have to ask the ISP to be able to have a public IP.
is there a method to make the laptop accessible via the internet without asking to make a request to ISP.With this way,

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That may be possible, depending on the internet access of your home; search for "DynDNS".

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Maybe you can share your concerns about providing billing data. Someone may can offer you some idea.

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I think "DynDNS" work only with public IP, the router uses 4G mobile network, so the allocated IP address is private on the network of mobile provider and it is not visible on the internet.
Is there any way to use "DynDNS" in this case ?

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Steve Dev wrote:I think "DynDNS" work only with public IP, the router uses 4G mobile network, so the allocated IP address is private on the network of mobile provider and it is not visible on the internet.
Is there any way to use "DynDNS" in this case ?

Sadly, no. If you have to get a fixed IP from your ISP, then it's probably got you behind a NAT service by default and the NAT's fixed IP would be shared with all the other users on that net. Just like all of the desktops on my system are apparently at 96.90.14.153 or something like that. DynDNS works, I believe in cases where you have a public IP address, but not a permanent one. If you have a permanent public IP then you could just use a public DNS service like GoDaddy.

Note that if you use Amazon AWS, they have their own "DynDNS" so even though the VM you create may not have a permanent IP, the AWS DNS server will still route to your Amazon VM.