Microsoft Azure is another great alternate cloud service and it is offering a one-year free trial with $200 credit. This post is almost similar to my previous Cloud service article. This will explain to you how to set up a virtual machine instance with secure firewall rules and setting up a XAMPP(PHP Maria DB Server) using the Ubuntu operating system. Microsoft Azure has lots of free project management services. This is very useful for your side projects.

Google cloud platform is a cloud computing service and a perfect alternate for Amazon Webservices. Nowadays most of the top companies are moving towards Google services for better results. Google cloud platform is offering a $300 free trial for one year. This post is about how to set up VM instances with firewall rules in addition to creating a XAMPP server with Ubuntu operation system. This is almost similar to my previous article about the Amazon EC2 setup. Try this and enrich your side projects.

Very long time back I had published an article about Amazon Cloud installation, nowadays Amazon Web Services is offering 12 months free trial for micro instance with 700 MB RAM. Now they simplified a few interface setting for the installation process, this post will explain to you how to set up an Amazon micro instance with Ubuntu operating system and XAMPP server. Try this for your first web project.