Heroku, the most famous web hosting in the world, has deleted its free plan, so here are the best hosts to host all types of websites and web projects without exception
It came as a shock to many developers after Heroku announced the cancellation of its free plan. Heroku has been everyone’s favorite platform to host their various types of websites, regardless of their technology. Originally, Heroku on the free plan allows you to host up to 3 full websites, and maybe just forwarding the domain to a full website is enough.
According to a statement from the company, the reason for closing the free plan is due to its exploitation by some weak-minded people in hosting harmful services that affect other people. Developers may now be looking for hosting with the same power and services that are free to host their own sites. That is why we have prepared for you this list of the best free hosting to host all kinds of websites.
Fly.io platform
Fly.io allows you to host a copy of your website for free on the platform. This is done by hosting a copy of the website or software on Docker. The company offers both free and paid services, and the free service provides you with limited space, but it is acceptable for various purposes.
Fly.io has servers across all continents (except Africa, whose users will connect from European servers), the location of the servers only affects the loading speed of the site, but you can host it with ease.
Hosting provides support for many different web technologies, the most famous of which are Rails, Django, and even GO projects. In addition to projects hosted on other technologies such as Laravel and NuxtJS. If your site is static, i.e. only HTML/CSS/JS, it can also be hosted on Fly.io. You can view all the supported technologies, as well as an explanation of how to host their projects step by step.
Netlify platform
Don’t worry, we’ll have plenty of suggestions for dynamic sites in this article, but for static and static timers the best suggestion to host your site on would be the Netlify platform. If you have a web page that doesn’t need a database connection, if it’s developed with some advanced frameworks like Angular, React or Vue, or it depends on API’s for its general functionality, then Netlify is what you’re looking for.
It is an incubator for developers, as it provides a ready-made hosting environment to handle it very easily. In addition to the hosting environment, the service also provides the development environment. Yes, you can even build a website based on Netlify’s proprietary technologies. It has some paid services that you may need later, and are not related to hosting features.
Render platform
Do you really miss Heroku? We then recommend the Render platform, which offers almost the same services as Heroku and even the way to host projects through it. With great support for all types of websites, regardless of their building technologies, and the availability of a free and reliable plan to make your site accessible to everyone.
Render supports linking the project from Github (or similar platforms) directly to your account on the platform, so any changes you make to the project’s content are applied directly to the website.
Not only hosting websites, the Render service can be used for many customizations, such as hosting Web Workers, for example, or hosting databases of different types such as PostgreSQL and Redis, and other features as well. This ranks it as the best real Heroku alternative yet.
Firebase platform
Then let’s not forget the popular Firebase service from Google. It is a platform for hosting and managing applications and software, most people rely on Firebase as a database platform to use in their own services. But you can also host an integrated website across the platform.
Firebase does not automatically support the required technologies (such as Rails, Django, or Laravel), but rather indirectly. That is, the project must be initially configured to be compatible with Firebase.
Its most important feature is that it is supported by Google, and this means that you will not suffer from performance or interruption problems, not even difficulty in carrying out difficult tasks because Google will provide you with full support through the Documentation of the platform.
Its freeness is another advantage that should not be ignored, as the Firebase platform is completely free with all its features, and without limits as well. But they delete your project if it doesn’t get traffic or interest after months, so make sure you take care of your projects built on Firebase. The platform has paid plans for sure, but it will not affect your individual business.
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