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Portway is free to get started with. Free tier includes:
  • 2 vCPU/month
  • 2 GB/month of memory
  • 1 GB/month of storage
Free instances have important limitations and should not be used for production. They’re perfect for trying a new technology, working on a hobby project, or previewing Portway’s developer experience!

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Spinning down on idle

Portway spins down a Free web service that receives no inbound traffic for 15 minutes. Portway spins the service back up automatically on the next request. Spinning up a service can take up to a minute and may cause a noticeable delay for incoming requests until the service is running again. For example, a browser page load may hang temporarily.

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Service-initiated traffic threshold

Portway may suspend a Free web service that initiates an unusually high volume of traffic over the public internet. Examples of service-initiated traffic include:
  • Accessing an external database
  • Invoking external APIs
  • Transferring data to or from external object storage
If your service is suspended this way, you can restore it by moving it to any paid instance type.

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Limitations

  • Portway may restart a Free web service at any time.
  • Free web services do not support:
    • Scaling beyond a single instance
    • Persistent disks
    • Shell access via SSH or the Portway Dashboard