We can find quality services on the internet. But its not always easy to find quality services that are affordable too. What if I told you there are resources to help you with this problem. Today I would like you to introduce to one of the solutions that helped me - GitHub Student Developer Pack
So what is GitHub ?
Lets say GitHub is social media platform for developers and programmers. It is one of the worlds largest community for developers. Instead of posting photos and videos you can post your code here. It also supports version control and collaborations. So you can work with multiple people on a single project. There are many more features available in GitHub and its a subsidiary of Microsoft.
GitHub Student Developer Pack
GitHub is a platform for programmers and developers. But GitHub Student developer Pack is a set of tools. As the name suggests its a set of tools for students and its made exclusively for students( They also have "GitHub Teacher Toolbox" for teachers.).
Learn to ship software like a pro. There's no substitute for hands-on experience. But for most students, real world tools can be cost-prohibitive. That's why we created the GitHub Student Developer Pack with some of our partners and friends: to give students free access to the best developer tools in one place so they can learn by doing. - GitHub
GitHub has collaborated with many renowned tech companies. As a result you can get best tools for your projects and hobbies. As I said earlier its a set of tools. You can apply for it from the GitHub Education page. This pack contains more than 100 tools from different companies. All of these are free to use for a certain period. These are some of the services I mostly use nowadays,
- DigitalOcean - Its a simple cloud hosting provider. With this pack you can get $100 for 1 year. I mainly use this test out opensource projects like Ghost, Bitwarden, Pihole.. etc. DigitalOcean Marketplace contains 100+ applications which can be deployed easly with one click.
- Namecheap, Name.com and Get.tech - They are all domain registrars. A domain registrar is a company who can help you purchase, renew and manage domains. You can get domain names(like google.com) from these companies, Its totally free for a year. But will have normal renewal prices. Namecheap also provide an SSL certificate also for a year( You can see a lock a 🔒 when you open some sites in the browser). Get.tech provide an email service also for free(You must have seen email id's like info@domain.com). Yes, you can get all these for free for the first year.
- Canva - You can get 12 month subscription of Canva's Pro tier.
- Education Host - This can help you host your website.(Its nice to showcase your works😉)
These are only some . There are more services like Mailgun, Azure, Heroku, Frontend Mentor, Jetbrains etc.
This list can go on and there are about 100+ services and I am sure that there will be at least one that can help you. I have provided a link to GitHub Student Developer Pack. Here you can see all the offers available and even check it out. This pack has helped me a lot and I think you should also apply for it, if you haven't already.