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Stop guessing where to host your project.
Honest comparisons of 23 hosts — VPS, PaaS, serverless — with the trade-offs the landing pages skip. Built by indie developers, for indie developers.
Most-asked-about hosts
The six providers indie devs actually evaluate against each other.
Hetzner Cloud
from $4.5/moEuropean VPS with the best price/performance ratio, period.
DigitalOcean
from $6/moThe original developer-friendly VPS — now with a full PaaS layer on top.
Cloudflare Pages
from FreeStatic + edge-functions hosting on the world's biggest CDN, free for almost everyone.
Railway
from $5/moHeroku-style git-push with the best modern UX in the category.
Fly.io
from FreeRun small full-stack apps in dozens of regions for genuinely low cost — when it works.
Vercel
from FreeThe default home for Next.js, with a polished DX and a love-it-or-hate-it bill.
Cheapest credible picks
Lowest-priced plans across our directory, excluding free tiers. Cheaper isn't always better — read the detail page before committing.
RackNerd
$1.5Bottom-of-market VPS prices for projects that just need to run — plus an aggressive line of cheap older-generation dedicated servers.
Scaleway
$1.84French cloud with bare-metal ARM and a Heroku-style PaaS layer.
Netcup
$4German VPS with quiet engineering and surprisingly fast hardware.
Northflank
$4PaaS for teams that have outgrown Heroku-style abstractions.
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