Italics means the text/description is directly from the vendor, usually the slug line on their home page.
Non-italics means it's my comments/editorial.
- Surge
- Static web publishing for Front-End Developers
- Simple, single-command web publishing. Publish HTML, CSS, and JS for free, without leaving the command line.
- GitHub Pages
- Websites for you and your projects.
- Hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.
- GitLab Pages
- With GitLab Pages, you can publish static websites directly from a repository in GitLab.
- Netify
- Modern web apps shipped faster
- An intuitive Git-based workflow and powerful serverless platform to build, deploy, and collaborate on web apps
- Add a Deploy To Netify button to your GitHub repo
- Vercel
- Vercel is the best place to deploy any frontend app.
- Start by deploying with zero configuration to our global edge network.
- Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.
- Stormkit
- Powerful infrastructure for modern javascript apps
- Stormkit integrates perfectly with your git flow.
- Glitch
- Static and Node.js.
- Includes an integrated online IDE with real-time code sharing.
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- Deploy a ton of languages, including Java/Spring Boot and tons of other stuff
- Rich marketplace with lots of add-ons and best practices out-of-the-box
- Personal first pick for Spring Boot + PostgreSQL hosting
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- Hosted Postgres with a bunch of prebuilt integrations, esp. interesting is the auth offering
- All open source
- Pairs nicely with static sites and/or stuff hosted on Heroku.
- Spring Boot + Heroku + Supabase + HTMX has been a great setup for me. :)
- Render
- Render is a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites with free SSL, a global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.
- No Java support on docs page (perhaps do it yourself via Docker?)
- Linode
- More of a server host than a cloud vendor
These are giant platforms. Just keeping track of their offerings is a full-time job.
- Google Firebase
- Firebase helps you build and run successful apps
- All sorts of stuff, including authentication, data, storage, analytics...
- Google Cloud
- Related but broader than Firebase.
- Not entirely clear, but Firebase seems to offer higher level/more straight-forward services?
- Amazon Web Services
- Market leader.
- More offerings than you can possibly keep track of.
- Most popular for 3rd parties; many of the services above sit on top of AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Obviously Windows/C# developers should check this out.
- Similar to AWS, more offerings than you can possibly keep track of.
Deploy a Spring Boot App to AWS: https://youtu.be/ALPO5ZmlpxI Deploy a Spring Boot App to Azure: https://youtu.be/jf-HNXgcTsI Deploy a Spring Boot App to Google Cloud: https://youtu.be/V3jAGbTwS-M