Best Hosting & Deploy for Founders
13 tools reviewed honest opinions, no fluff.
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The hosting & deploy tools we recommend most for founders.
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13 tools reviewed with honest opinions.
Vercel
Push to git, site is live. DX so smooth it ruined us for everything else. The gold standard.
Use when: Frontend and full-stack JS apps
Netlify
The OG JAMstack host. Still great for static sites and serverless functions. Reliable.
Railway
Deploy anything with zero config. Databases, apps, cron jobs. Heroku's cool successor.
Render
Simple cloud hosting that doesn't require a PhD in DevOps. Free tier is surprisingly solid.
Fly.io
Run your app close to users worldwide. Edge deployment for when latency actually matters.
Cloudflare Pages
Free static hosting on the world's fastest network. Workers for server-side logic. Unbeatable.
DigitalOcean
Cloud infrastructure for devs who want VMs without AWS complexity. Droplets still slap.
AWS Amplify
AWS made approachable. Full-stack hosting with auth, storage, and APIs baked in.
Deno Deploy
Edge-first hosting from the Deno team. Deploy TypeScript globally in seconds. Zero config, built-in KV store.
Open-source, self-hosted Vercel/Netlify alternative. Full PaaS on your own server. Pay for the VPS, skip the markup.
Deploy anything, anywhere. Serverless, containers, static sites. Like Railway but with a slicker UI and generous free tier.
Framework for building serverless apps on AWS. Makes AWS not terrible. Seriously, it's a miracle.
Serverless platform with global edge deployment. Git push to deploy. Free tier includes always-on instances. Railway competitor.
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