Free backend hosting

free-backend-hosting.md

See also:

• Free database hosting
• https://free-for.dev/#/?id=iaas
• https://free-for.dev/#/?id=paas

Service	Type	RAM	Storage	Limitations
👉 Adaptable	PaaS	256 MB	Non-persistent? (1 GB database storage available)
AWS EC2	IaaS	1 GB		⚠️ Only free for 1 year
Azure App Service	PaaS	1 GB	1 GB	⚠️ 60 CPU minutes/day
Azure VM	IaaS	1 GB	2 GB (non-persistent)	⚠️ Only free for 1 year
👉 Fly.io	PaaS	256 MB (2 instances)	1 GB (persistent)	160 GB/month outbound traffic (broken down by region) ❓ Trial plan (2 instances and 1 GB storage) doesn't require card, but does it expire? ⚠️ Hobby plan (3 instances and 3 GB storage) requires credit card, no way to avoid accidental overage fees
Google App Engine	PaaS	128 MB	1 GB	Standard Environment only Limited to Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby 1 GB/day outbound traffic; should be able to avoid overage fees
Google Compute Engine	IaaS	0.6 GB	30 GB	1 GB/month outbound traffic (not including China or Australia) ⚠️ After the first year there's no way to avoid accidental overage fees
Heroku (discontinued) 😭	PaaS	512 MB	Non-persistent	Idling after 30 minutes inactivity, limited to 550 hours/month
IBM Cloud Foundry	PaaS	256 MB		⚠️ Sleep after 10 days, deleted after 30 days of no "development activity"
👉 Northflank	PaaS	??? (2 instances)	Non-persistent	⚠️ Credit card required for signup, won't be billed on the free tier
OpenShift Developer Sandbox	PaaS	7 GB	15 GB	⚠️ Expires after 30 days (can resubscribe for free but not extend subscription), pods are automatically deleted after 12 consecutive hours of runtime
Oracle Cloud	IaaS	1 GB each for 2 VMs (AMD CPU) 24 GB across up to 4 VMs (ARM CPU)	200 GB across 2 volumes	AMD CPUs limited to 1/8 of 2 CPUs per VM ⚠️ Payment method required
Railway (discontinued)	Paas	512 MB	1 GB	Limited to 500 hours/month 100 GB/month outbound traffic
👉 Render	PaaS	512 MB	Non-persistent	No persistent storage Idling after 15 minutes of inactivity 750 hours runtime/month

https://cloud.candle.dev

offers up to 1gb persistent storage, 256mb ram and shared compute for free. Need to deploy using using Wick framework (https://github.com/candlecorp/wick)

For MERN apps, Render is a fine choice if using MongoDB Atlas. You can get around the 15 min idling by scheduling a cron-job every 5 min. 750 hour limit is quite generous as app can run whole month!

Back4app has a new CaaS (basically PaaS for docker deployment, or idk exactly it is but it can deploy a repository based on Dockerfile) with 256MB RAM, 100GB monthly transfer, and 600 active hours for free. Not exactly better than Render, but if you want an alternative for Render or Render wants you to input your credit card in your region, this is a good one.

https://bronze-accordion-5db.notion.site/Hosting-Platforms-5e88dce88be94848b099ac1fec547c9c?pvs=4
I maintain it, please feel free to try one of these options and add comments if you need help.

I think you can not deploy anything on adaptable.io now without adding the payment method.

Hosting Front End with React is working well free. But node express backend require the pay version. :)

And we can use https://app.cyclic.sh/#/ for hosting the backend free. One app is free.

Unfortunately, not anymore. Cyclic is shutting down all there services from May 31, 2024.

Hosting Front End with React is working well free. But node express backend require the pay version. :)
And we can use https://app.cyclic.sh/#/ for hosting the backend free. One app is free.

Unfortunately, not anymore. Cyclic is shutting down all there services from May 31, 2024.

Yeah , that's very unfortunate

https://bronze-accordion-5db.notion.site/Hosting-Platforms-5e88dce88be94848b099ac1fec547c9c?pvs=4 I maintain it, please feel free to try one of these options and add comments if you need help.

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