HACKER Q&A
📣 przybytniewski

What's your hosting solution for projects and what does it costs you?


What hosting solutions are you using for your projects? What's your monthly infrastructure cost for that?

I host a few side-projects on a DigitalOcean 10$ droplet + 2$ for backups with docker containers.

It works but I'm looking for something more scalable and future-proof, as I'm planning to jump into SaaS for real and have large traffic :)

For a few users daily DO Droplet is fine, but the DevOps workload isn't worth that for me...

  👤 synicalx Accepted Answer ✓
I've long since given up having projects, but when I used to do that kind of stuff I would mostly run either on Heroku's free tier (RIP) or on my home server.

These days I'd probably opt for one of the various free static site hosting options like DO or Github. If I needed an actual server I'd probably still go for DO, or try and cram it into the GCP free tier.

👤 vmoore
I have a few static sites hosted with Github Pages, with a custom domain that I have renewed for the next 10 years. I have 'set and forget' the projects yet I am always promoting the projects on social media. Total cost: $0.00 for hosting, $50.00 for a 10-year domain.
👤 aethrae
If you want to cut down on DevOps, try render.com