Claw Cloud Run is a lightweight application platform under Claw Cloud, which you can understand as something like Vercel or Netlify. It is both a PaaS platform and offers Serverless services, and can run Docker-like projects (not directly running with Docker, but automatically adapted to run in a Serverless manner). It allows for quick deployment of programs like Alist, Rsshub, Memos, Uptime Kuma, Chatgpt-next-web, etc. It can even be used to run Minecraft game servers. Upon registration, you receive a $5 credit, and if you bind a GitHub account that has been registered for over 180 days, you can enjoy a monthly credit of $5 permanently. Each available zone has 4H 8G 10G resources, totaling 10 GB of traffic.
It's naturally great to get something for free. Although Vercel is also quite useful, Claw Cloud Run offers free databases, making it more convenient for running personal projects. Most importantly, the speed from the Singapore and Japan regions to mainland China is quite good:
Registration link (with AFF)
If you don't want to use my AFF, you can simply Google "Claw Cloud Run" to find the official website.
If you log in with a GitHub account that has been registered for over 180 days, you can enjoy a monthly $5 gift without needing a credit card. If you don't have one, you will only receive a one-time $5 credit.
Note: The $5 given each month is for the free plan, not the hobby plan. The $5 is meant to offset your usage costs. According to the estimated costs on the page, Alist costs $0.04 per day, and WordPress costs $0.06 per day. By appropriately reducing the container configuration, it is still feasible to deploy 4 or 5 personal projects for free each month.
How to reduce container configuration
By default, it gives a minimum of 1H1G for a project, which is too extravagant for some small projects. Adjusting it down can effectively reduce deployment costs. I have a script for automatic sign-ins for a forum, which only occupies a few MB when running locally, so I only allocated 0.1 core and 64MB of memory. It only costs 1 cent per day (actually less than that, but the minimum display difference is 0.01 yuan).
- Go to the application list
- Click on the project that needs modification
- There is an "Update" option in the upper left corner, click on it
- Simply reduce the CPU and memory happily.
PS: Claw Cloud (also known as Aliyun Youth Edition) is rumored to be a front for Alibaba Cloud in Singapore (as they use Alibaba Cloud's infrastructure). However, there is also a possibility that it is a reseller based on Alibaba Cloud trying to ride the wave, which is not uncommon among cloud service providers.