Hosting
Hosting tools are for deploying and hosting a live app — the kind of work every indie hacker eventually hits and would rather not build from scratch. 7 tools are listed here, each picked and written up individually rather than pulled from an affiliate feed. Cloudflare Pages is usually the first one people try: free, fast static hosting riding on Cloudflare's edge network — hard to beat for JAMstack sites on a budget. DigitalOcean App Platform takes a different angle — a PaaS layer on DigitalOcean's plain-spoken cloud — pick it for predictable pricing over serverless surprises. And Fly.io is worth a look too: runs your containers on real machines close to users worldwide — more control than a PaaS, more setup too. Every listing below includes the actual tradeoff, not marketing copy, so you can pick based on what you're building instead of what ranks highest in a sponsored roundup elsewhere.
Free, fast static hosting riding on Cloudflare's edge network — hard to beat for JAMstack sites on a budget.
A PaaS layer on DigitalOcean's plain-spoken cloud — pick it for predictable pricing over serverless surprises.
Runs your containers on real machines close to users worldwide — more control than a PaaS, more setup too.
The original git-push-to-deploy platform for static sites and JAMstack — still solid, still simple.
Deploy anything from a Dockerfile with pay-as-you-go pricing and a UI that doesn't make you hate infrastructure.
Feels like Heroku circa its prime — services, databases, and cron jobs with none of the acquisition-era decay.
The default choice for Next.js apps — git push and it's live, though costs can creep if you're not watching usage.