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Service Type RAM Storage Limitations
👉 Adaptable PaaS 256 MB Non-persistent? (1 GB database storage available)
AWS EC2 IaaS 1 GB ⚠️ Only free for 1 year
Azure App Service PaaS 1 GB 1 GB ⚠️ 60 CPU minutes/day
Azure VM IaaS 1 GB 2 GB (non-persistent) ⚠️ Only free for 1 year
👉 Fly.io PaaS 256 MB (2 instances) 1 GB (persistent)
  • 160 GB/month outbound traffic (broken down by region)
  • ❓ Trial plan (2 instances and 1 GB storage) doesn't require card, but does it expire?
  • ⚠️ Hobby plan (3 instances and 3 GB storage) requires credit card, no way to avoid accidental overage fees
Google App Engine PaaS 128 MB 1 GB
Google Compute Engine IaaS 0.6 GB 30 GB
  • 1 GB/month outbound traffic (not including China or Australia)
  • ⚠️ After the first year there's no way to avoid accidental overage fees
Heroku (discontinued) 😭 PaaS 512 MB Non-persistent Idling after 30 minutes inactivity, limited to 550 hours/month
IBM Cloud Foundry PaaS 256 MB ⚠️ Sleep after 10 days, deleted after 30 days of no "development activity"
👉 Northflank PaaS ??? (2 instances) Non-persistent ⚠️ Credit card required for signup, won't be billed on the free tier
OpenShift Developer Sandbox PaaS 7 GB 15 GB ⚠️ Expires after 30 days (can resubscribe for free but not extend subscription), pods are automatically deleted after 12 consecutive hours of runtime
Oracle Cloud IaaS
  • 1 GB each for 2 VMs (AMD CPU)
  • 24 GB across up to 4 VMs (ARM CPU)
200 GB across 2 volumes
  • AMD CPUs limited to 1/8 of 2 CPUs per VM
  • ⚠️ Payment method required
Railway (discontinued) Paas 512 MB 1 GB
  • Limited to 500 hours/month
  • 100 GB/month outbound traffic
👉 Render PaaS 512 MB Non-persistent
  • No persistent storage
  • Idling after 15 minutes of inactivity
  • 750 hours runtime/month
@shiroopi
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shiroopi commented Jun 2, 2024

Hosting Front End with React is working well free. But node express backend require the pay version. :)
And we can use https://app.cyclic.sh/#/ for hosting the backend free. One app is free.

Unfortunately, not anymore. Cyclic is shutting down all there services from May 31, 2024.

Yeah , that's very unfortunate

https://bronze-accordion-5db.notion.site/Hosting-Platforms-5e88dce88be94848b099ac1fec547c9c?pvs=4 I maintain it, please feel free to try one of these options and add comments if you need help.

add Logto to auth section

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For frontend => I tried deploying my react webapp in versel
For Backend => I tried deploying my python fastappi app in render
I too deployed postgres in render. It worked well with https serving

I tried railway with python fastappi app and postgres too but didnt work with https

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symful commented Oct 7, 2024

Render requires CC to make web service

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Edi2nih commented Oct 12, 2024

Render requires CC to make web service

Using vpn and try sigup with anoter account

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