GitHub git repositories and community features. Github is
free for open source projects. All paid accounts have unlimited private repositories. My repos are in /ansdell.
VPS, transit and hosting services
Digital Ocean sells virtual servers, of various
sizes in several global locations, by the hour or the month. This is a referral link: at
the time of writing, a new customer using this link would get a $100 credit. I have two Digital Ocean droplets
running CentOS 7.8. These complement a third
remote server running CentOS 7.8.
Hurricane Electric IPv4 and IPv6 backbone
and transit network operator. HE also provides
Linode instant Linux VPS
deployment. I have
a referral link for linode.com: at the time of writing it gives a $20 service credit
when opening a new account.
codepen.io for web front-end demonstrations and testing.
Pens can be embedded and are editable and responsive. Has a huge range of options and facilities including PHP
and CSS linting; and testing pens using a free crossbrowsertesting.com service. All public pens are under an MIT licence.
jsbin provides live collaborative HTML, CSS and JavaScript
pastebins. Paid accounts have Dropbox sync and private bins.
Pastebin.com for storing and sharing code snippets. Pro
users have https links after login..
TLS certificates, public keys and related services
AlwaysOnSSL free, automated
Certification Authority run by CertCenter and DigiCert.
keybase.io public directory of auditable public keys.
letsencrypt.org offer free 90-day Domain Validation
certificates, including wildcards, intended for automated deployment.
Adobe Document Cloud for file storage and
processing as part of Adobe Acrobat DC.
Dropbox file synchronisation service. The software is
not wholly free or open-source but it does have clients for both GNU/Linux and Android. Dropbox offers some
free space and has useful attributes including O’Reilly book synchronisation. With personal accounts,
prior versions are kept for 30 days by default: on Pro accounts this can be extended to a year with the
chargeable Extended History add-on; some older accounts may have opted to retain the discontinued Packrat
option that offered unlimited deletion recovery and version history. Business accounts have unlimited version
history by default. On Android devices, and on desktops where the Dropbox Professional service is in use, the
Dropbox app only holds active files locally, reducing the need for storage space.
OneDrive from Microsoft provides cloud
backup and synchronisation. Plans range from 5GB free plans to 1TB per user with Office 365 plans. Clients are available for Android and other
platforms, Web access is also supported.
SpiderOak zero-knowledge cloud storage with a wide
range of supported clients, including Android and GNU/Linux.
FastMail.com Australian mail handler with paid
accounts for individuals, families and businesses. . Using this Fastmail referral link will save
10% of the first year’s subscription.
Protonmail.ch secure mail service,
headquartered in Switzerland. Android app available, as are own domains, multiple users and an associated VPN
service.
SE Ranking SEO monitoring for web sites over
multiple search engines.
UpTimeRobot provides up to 50 instances of monitors
for internet services at no less than 5-minute intervals with alerting and a day’s logs for free. Paid
plans can have more monitors, SMS notification and shorter intervals between probes.