Here are some free to use hosting services for web developers
When developing a web application or website, you willl want to be able to share it with the world. Hosting
a website can be costly. Fortunately, there are a number of hosting services out there that offer a pretty descent free plan, enabling you to use them without worrying about servers. These hosting services run in the cloud and some may support Static Sites, Backend or even cloud functions. All of these services provide a subdomain link to the apps you deploy so you can share it.
Let's have them !
Vercel
Vercel is an amazing service. They allow you to ewasily develop applications, previewing them before setting it to production. They provide multiple URLs for all of yours apps, each having a specific use in development. The free plan offers you the following :
- Ability to add custom domains (max of 50 for free plan)
- 100GB Bandwidth and storage
- Cloud/Serverless Functions
- Edge Network
- CI/CD
- Unlimited sites
- A CLI for easy deployment
Netlify
Netlify is a direct Vercel competitor. Additionally, they support handling of form submissions (100 per site per month), 1000 identified active users per site per month and site analytics.
Heroku
This is a hosting service for full stack apllications in the cloud. They support Python, Ruby, Java apps and many more. Their free plan provide 550-1000 dynos (500 hours monthly compute). They support CI/CD.
Stormkit
This is a JavaScript only hosting service. That is, they allow you to host only JavaScript apps using their services. The free plan allows :
- 1 app
- 50GB Bandwidth
- Unlimited domains
- Unlimited deployments
Hostman
This is another cool hosting service for both backend and frontend. Their free plan allows you to host only 10 websites (static) and deploy to their global edge network. They offer 100GB monthly with bandwidth included.
Glitch
This is a free service that allow you to host full stack apps in NodeJS. They allow you to worl with other languages as well. Moreover, they provide you with an editor and an integrated terminal for working. It also allows collaborative work on a project. They provide 1000 hours for all projects per month.
Repl.it
This other service is similar to glitch. It support so many languages and the free plan is pretty nice.
Surge
This is a static sites hosting service. Unlike the other, this one does not provide a Free SSL certificate. They have a CLI for easy deployments
Firebase
Firebase is a PaaS Google service. It allows you to create application backend easily without coding. It also allows you to host static websites for free. Firebase is very easy to use and provides a CLI to manage yours apps . They also support hosting cloud functions.
Render
This service is pretty the same as heroku except the free period is within ine month
GitHub Pages
If you have a GitHub account, this might be your go-to choice for hosting. They allow you to host static sites for free on a domain of the form : .github.io. It allows you to blog, show off and host a static sites for all of your github repositories.
begin
This service allows you to host your full stack, frontend or backend apps on their global network, supports serverless functions. Their free plan allow a max of 5 apps.
Deta
Deta allows your ro host python and node apps in the cloud. They also provide a built-in database, automatically installed on every app. They provide storage for storing files like images, videos and many more. Unfortunately they allow to deploy through their CLI only.
Fly
Fly is another hosting service that allows you to deploy yours apps on virtual machines in the cloud. They provide 160GB bandwidth per month for free and 8million compute seconds per month, descent free plan.
Fleek
Fleek proovides storage, hosting and databases all in one. They allow you to deploy from version control services like bitbucket, gitlab and github. It is nice to use.
You have reached the end Above was a list of hosting services i had collected over sometime while searching for hosting services for my websites and apps. Now you have no excuses not to deploy and share your apps to the world. I hope you liked it.
