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Hosting & Deployment

Deploy apps and static sites.

The split here is whether you want a platform or a machine. Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare Pages hide the server entirely, which is fine until you need a background worker or a long-running process — then Render, Railway or Fly.io start to look better. Rent a box from Hetzner, Linode or DigitalOcean and you own the savings and the uptime both.

Editor's pick

Coolify or Dokku on a rented box is the honest answer once a project outgrows a free tier. You keep the git-push workflow and trade a usage-based bill for maintaining the server yourself.