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Hetzner
PaidHigh-performance European cloud hosting at unbeatable prices
GitHub
FreemiumWhere the world builds software

Coolify
Open SourceSelf-hostable, open source alternative to Heroku and Netlify

Fly.io
FreemiumRun full-stack apps and Postgres close to your users by deploying Firecracker microVMs to dozens of regions.
Cloudflare Pages
FreemiumFree Jamstack hosting on Cloudflares edge with unlimited bandwidth and tight integration with Workers.
Render
FreemiumManaged cloud hosting for web services, static sites, cron jobs, and Postgres without the AWS console.

Deno Deploy
FreemiumRun JavaScript and TypeScript on the edge with zero config, built by the team behind the Deno runtime.

Heroku
PaidThe original git-push PaaS. Owned by Salesforce, still kicking, still the easiest way to deploy a Rails or Django app.
Turborepo
Open SourceHigh-performance build system for JavaScript and TypeScript monorepos

Vercel
FreemiumDevelop, preview, and ship delightful user experiences
MongoDB Atlas
FreemiumThe fully-managed cloud version of MongoDB with built-in search, vector search, time series, and serverless tiers.

Neon
FreemiumServerless Postgres with database branching, scale-to-zero compute, and a generous free tier.

Turso
FreemiumDistributed SQLite at the edge. Replicate a libSQL database to dozens of regions for sub-10ms reads.
PlanetScale
FreemiumServerless MySQL platform with branching and zero-downtime migrations

Upstash
FreemiumServerless Redis, Kafka, and QStash for modern applications
Workbench
FreemiumA free always-on cloud terminal you can reach from any SSH client on any device

SoloDevStack
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