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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
@Riders004
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Sorry If it did not work. I used firebase for my for my flutter app. I did not know this list was for web hosting.

How to host nodejs application on firebase

@vignesh7056
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https://www.back4app.com/pricing/backend-as-a-service
https://neon.tech/pricing
https://glitch.com/pricing

@ikeofilic1
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Adaptable is shutting down😭

@aravindk777
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What about vercel vercel?

@ElianaBrininger
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I noticed you haven't included Back4app in your list, which comes with a free tier. This option https://www.back4app.com/web-deployment-platform doesn't ask for credit card details and confers 100GB transfer, 0.25 shared CPU, 256 MB RAM, deployment from GitHub and custom Docker containers under its free tier.

@pranay-dutta
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@ElianaBrininger Does this shut down automatically after some minutes of inactivity?

@master-wayne7
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Bro please update Fly.io, as it is free upto $5 and you'll need to enter card details to sign up.

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uhnv commented Aug 1, 2025 via email

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master-wayne7 commented Aug 2, 2025 •
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What the fuck is flu.io and who you are?
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@uhnv if you check the above list then you'll find Fly.io is also mentioned (not flu.io) . And it doesn't matter who I am just wanted to share what I know about it.

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