Pick your cloud hosting — 14 providers across the five categories that decide most picks
Your hosting choice is your monthly bill, your egress cost, and the operational model your team lives in. The directory filters by Jamstack / PaaS / hyperscaler / VPS / self-hosted, plus pricing, edge-readiness, and free-tier status. Every entry gives you a one-line summary, a concrete best-for, an honest skip-this-if, and a paragraph of opinion.
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Coolify
Open-source self-hostable PaaS — Heroku / Vercel shape on your own VPS. The 2025 darling.
Dokku
matureThe original Heroku-style PaaS for self-hosting. Older, simpler, smaller surface than Coolify.
Vercel
The Next.js company's platform. Zero-config Next.js deploys, edge runtime, generous DX, premium pricing.
Netlify
Vercel's closer Jamstack competitor. Cleaner pricing, broader framework support, less Next.js-locked.
Cloudflare Pages
Edge-first Jamstack on Cloudflare's 300+ city network. Cheapest at scale, broader runtime constraints.
Render
Modern Heroku alternative. Web services, background workers, Postgres, Redis, cron — all integrated.
Fly.io
Run Docker containers in 30+ regions. Per-region scaling, Postgres included, edge-shaped PaaS.
Railway
Modern PaaS with the cleanest DX in the category. Per-second pricing, Heroku-style git deploys.
Heroku
matureThe original PaaS. Mature, capable, expensive — and still relevant in enterprise.
AWS
The biggest cloud. Every service you can imagine, complexity and cost to match. EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS.
Google Cloud
Google's cloud. Strong on data, ML, and Kubernetes. Smaller than AWS, more developer-friendly.
Microsoft Azure
The Microsoft cloud. Strong in Microsoft-shop enterprises, .NET-aligned, OpenAI integration via Azure OpenAI.
Hetzner Cloud
European VPS provider with shockingly cheap dedicated machines. The cost-leader of cloud hosting.
DigitalOcean
Developer-friendly cloud with App Platform, Droplets, Managed Databases. Heroku-shape PaaS optional.
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The hosting choice is the easy half — your bill at scale is the hard one
Picking the host is the easy half. The hard half is the bandwidth bill at 1M page views, the egress cost when you migrate, and the platform-lock that comes with every bundled service. The 30-min call is the right starting place — describe your traffic shape, your stack, your budget; I tell you what fits without surprising you in month 4.