List of free hosting services (that also offer options to scale up for $) in 2021

modern-hosting-2021.md

Italics means the text/description is directly from the vendor, usually the slug line on their home page.

Non-italics means it's my comments/editorial.

Static Sites

• Surge
  • Static web publishing for Front-End Developers
  • Simple, single-command web publishing. Publish HTML, CSS, and JS for free, without leaving the command line.

Git -> Static Sites

• GitHub Pages
  • Websites for you and your projects.
  • Hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.
• GitLab Pages
  • With GitLab Pages, you can publish static websites directly from a repository in GitLab.

Server-Side JavaScript

• Netify
  • Modern web apps shipped faster
  • An intuitive Git-based workflow and powerful serverless platform to build, deploy, and collaborate on web apps
  • Add a Deploy To Netify button to your GitHub repo
• Vercel
  • Vercel is the best place to deploy any frontend app.
  • Start by deploying with zero configuration to our global edge network.
  • Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.
• Stormkit
  • Powerful infrastructure for modern javascript apps
  • Stormkit integrates perfectly with your git flow.
• Glitch
  • Static and Node.js.
  • Includes an integrated online IDE with real-time code sharing.

Java (Spring Boot) & Other Platforms

• Heroku

  • Deploy a ton of languages, including Java/Spring Boot and tons of other stuff
  • Rich marketplace with lots of add-ons and best practices out-of-the-box
  • Personal first pick for Spring Boot + PostgreSQL hosting

• Supabase

  • Hosted Postgres with a bunch of prebuilt integrations, esp. interesting is the auth offering
  • All open source
  • Pairs nicely with static sites and/or stuff hosted on Heroku.
  • Spring Boot + Heroku + Supabase + HTMX has been a great setup for me. :)

Other Platforms (Node, Python)

• Render
  • Render is a unified platform to build and run all your apps and websites with free SSL, a global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.
  • No Java support on docs page (perhaps do it yourself via Docker?)
• Linode
  • More of a server host than a cloud vendor

Big Company Offerings

These are giant platforms. Just keeping track of their offerings is a full-time job.

• Google Firebase
  • Firebase helps you build and run successful apps
  • All sorts of stuff, including authentication, data, storage, analytics...
• Google Cloud
  • Related but broader than Firebase.
  • Not entirely clear, but Firebase seems to offer higher level/more straight-forward services?
• Amazon Web Services
  • Market leader.
  • More offerings than you can possibly keep track of.
  • Most popular for 3rd parties; many of the services above sit on top of AWS
• Microsoft Azure
  • Obviously Windows/C# developers should check this out.
  • Similar to AWS, more offerings than you can possibly keep track of.

Deploy a Dockerized Spring Boot App to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

Deploy a Spring Boot App to AWS: https://youtu.be/ALPO5ZmlpxI Deploy a Spring Boot App to Azure: https://youtu.be/jf-HNXgcTsI Deploy a Spring Boot App to Google Cloud: https://youtu.be/V3jAGbTwS-M

Certificates

• https://letsencrypt.org

Thanks for sharing this issue here. I would like to know more about using a web hosting service for my new website. Can you please help me here? Though I started reading online articles https://masterbundles.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/7-easy-steps-to-host-your-website.pdf How helpful it is? Should I follow it?

These links are really for a developer who is familiar with things like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. If you are just looking for a website, I would suggest looking at SquareSpace or Wix. Both of those sites include links to communities of web developers that can help you get sorted.