Hosting for Studies: A Real Customer Case from Aéza

Sometimes the most interesting projects don't start with work — they start with studying. We wanted to find out how our services help students, so we spoke with a customer who shared his story of using Aéza for educational purposes:

First Hackathon

In 2025, I graduated from college as a web developer.
But honestly, the education was pretty basic. I wanted something more hands-on.

In my second and third years, a few friends and I decided to take part in a regional hackathon.
The theme was tourism, and we built a website.

The first question was: where do we host all this without it being expensive? We ended up choosing another hosting provider because they offered hourly billing. For a demo lasting a couple of days, that seemed fine.

Second Hackathon and Aéza

By the end of my third year, I had already been running my own project on Aéza for almost a year. When another hackathon came up, I decided to use Aéza again for several reasons:

- Fair price
- Option to choose a foreign location
- Everything runs smoothly without the headache

🇫🇮 The project had an international theme (cybersecurity), so we chose a VPS in Finland.

Unfortunately, we missed winning by just 1 point... 😢

👨‍🎓 Graduation Project

In my fourth year, my professors gave me a technical assignment:
a service to track work hours within the college. First as a term project, then as my graduation project.

I decided to try an alternative hosting provider again, but in the end, it just wouldn't open from the college network.

So I went back to Aéza — this time I took a VDS in Germany. Everything worked almost immediately:

- Fast setup
- Stable performance
- No unnecessary configuration

The project was actually quite heavy — "Excel on steroids" (filters, document management, reports). I built it with Next.js + NestJS. Still, the server handled it well — even the automated tests ran without issues.

From our customer's story, we can conclude:

It doesn't matter whether you're working on a graduation project or a serious project — what matters is that your hosting works when you need it.

And if you've already had experience using our services for study projects, tell us about it in the comments