Question: I want to run a simple #Python script from a server that posts a daily overview of the birds in our garden to social media.

I've found #PythonAnywhere, which seems to work perfectly but is a little too expensive for this simple bot. The free version doesn't let me schedule a daily task.

Does anyone know a free or cheap server to run a daily bot from (which is also easy enough to operate for me)? Thanks!

Earlier today I posted about a spoof site of mine on #pythonanywhere, 𝐹º𝑛ｔ 𝘔ⅸᵉ𝐫, which converts identifiers in ASCII #Python to equivalent identifiers by randomly selecting Unicode points that normalize back to the original ASCII, and are therefore directly runnable, even though they look like a ransom note. Remember, builtins and all stdlib names can be denormalized this way.

I went to check the web logs, and found that someone found another PA site of mine, https://ptmcg.pythonanywhere.com/pyrac...

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I updated my personal site to use #FastAPI instead of #Flask and migrated that from #PythonAnywhere to #Railway

If you're interested in what the deployment process looks like on Railway's platform, clone this repo: https://github.com/railwayapp-templates/fastapi

& set up a new project on Railway at https://railway.app?referralCode=2ISez8

They're generous enough to allow one custom domain in their free tier, which is rare to see from a hosting platform 🤩

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They also offer MySQL and PostgreSQL databases as well as templates for #django and #flask apps