Heroku alternative platforms for hosting web apps.
Sometime last year Heroku pulled the plug on their free hosting tier which I am sure has left so many of us searching for an alternative to hosting our free backend API projects, here are the lists of free alternatives, and some of them allow migrating your existing apps from Heroku.
1. Fly
Allows deploying of full stacks app close to users, you can even run your app in multiple regions. fly allows building in your favorite frameworks, Django, rails, Go, Remix, docker, Rust, etc on https://buff.ly/2QqYPuy. Visit the site for more.
— The Free tier includes the following features — Up to 3 shared-CPU-1x 256 Mb VMs. 3GB persistent volume storage (total). 160GB outbound data transfer.
2. Adaptable
Adaptable is designed to host almost any web-based app, along with all of the production-ready services your app needs. Whether you’re building an API, a web UI, or a full-stack app by just connecting your GitHub and choosing the app repo and adaptive handle the rest. Technologies that work well with Adaptable:
— Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Python & Ruby
— Frameworks & Libraries: Feathers, Prisma, NestJS, React, Ruby on Rails, and more.
— Databases: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server
— Free tier with the following features: Scalable Containerized App Deployment, Managed Database Included (MongoDB, PostgreSQL), Continuous Deployment From GitHub, Free SSL/TLS, Shared App Build Pool, 1 container instance per app1 vCPU256MB RAM, 1GB Database Storage
3. Railway
Made for any language, for projects big and small. The railway is the cloud that takes the complexity out of shipping software. Begin with your repository, or start with a template. Our tooling extends your app with plugins and variable management so environments are the same live as local.
4. Appliku
Appliku is for Django developers, it allows deploying Django apps in 5 mins to AWS and Digital Ocean.
— Free tier with the following features: 1 Server, 1 App, Unlimited Deployments, Community Support
5. Cyclic
Connect your GitHub repo. We will build, deploy and manage the hosting.
Build Anything from Frontends, Backends, APIs, Data, Bots, and Cron.
— Free tier with 3 apps, 100,000 API requests, 1GB runtime memory, 512MB /tmp storage, 1GB Object Storage (AWS S3), 1GB Database Storage (AWS DynamoDB), Unlimited blazing fast builds, Public GitHub repositories, Hosted close to you, 3 Cron tasks per app, 7-day log retention, Community support.
6. Render
Cloud Application Hosting for Developers | Render(https://render.com/)
The fastest way to host all your web apps, databases, workers, containers, APIs, Static sites, and cron jobs. Basically, you can run anything on render from dockerfiles, rails, Django, Graphql, Gatsby, RabbitMQ, etc. Check here for the free tier resources.
7. Koyeb
The fastest way to deploy applications globally. Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No ops, servers, or infrastructure management. Simple. Global. Fast. Deploy your apps from Docker images, or connect your git repositories and simply push to deploy. Run your apps in some or all of our regions depending on your needs. Go global with 55 edge locations. Koyeb is one platform for all services from web apps & APIs, serverless functions, workers, and cron jobs.
— Free tier with the following features: Run Web Apps, APIs, and workers. Continuous deployment with Git. Global load-balancing with HTTP/2 and full SSL. Containers, Node, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby, Elixir, and more. Up to 2GB of RAM per service, charged by the second. $5 free credit every month. Infrastructure auto healing. Built-in autoscaling. High-Performance Edge Network. Service Mesh & Discovery. Automatic OS patching. Pay-per-use by the second.
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And there you have it, I hope you’ll find the lists helpful and resourceful.
Thanks for reading.
