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Meshv Patel
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Top Heroku Alternatives for free

Recently Heroku will shutdown free Heroku Dynos, free Heroku Postgres, and free Heroku Data for Redis after November 28th, 2022.

So, after some research on some of free alternatives provider I have gone through them all and see if it is free then I have included in my list that I am providing you 😎⭐😀.


1.Netlify - Host serverless apps

Netlify - link

You can try this one if you use serverless backend as you can make api with it.

For Reference:-
fullstack on netlify


2.Cloudflare - Best for Static Site.

Cloudflare

Pair http://pages.cloudflare.com (unlimited hosting 100% free, no underlying conditions), with http://workers.cloudflare.com (very generous free plan for serverless functions), and all the other cool stuff (R2, Durable Objects, KV, etc.), and it's a powerhouse!

Cloudflare references blog


3.Cyclic - Deploy full stack Node JS apps in seconds.

If you are MERN Stack developer then this is best for you.

It provides many things such as

  • For Frontend:- React, Next, Vue, Svelte.
  • For Backend:- Express, Node JS.
  • DataBase.
  • Even Bots :- Slack Bot.

If you sign up using my link you will get $10 free credit.


4.Deta – The Cloud for Developers

Get your Python & Node.js apps / APIs on the internet in seconds.

Deta is free for ever.


5. Firebase - Fast and secure web hosting

Firebase Hosting provides fast and secure hosting for your web app, static and dynamic content, and microservices.


6. Railway - Made for any language.

It also provide many language supports such Node Js, Django, Laravel, Kotlin spring, ruby and more....

According to me, you must try this. This is perfect for us as it will provide predefined template for all languages.

If you sign up using my link you will get $10 free credit.


7. Render - The fastest

way to host all your web apps.

It provides also

  • DataBase:-Redis, Postgres.

Here is the list of features


8.Devtron

Open source Software delivery workflow for kubernetes.


9.Fly - Run your full stack apps all over the world.

Every app will works on this.

Build with your favorite framework, ship on Fly.io. If you can build it into a Dockerfile, we can run it.


10.Fathym - Develop and deploy micro frontends in a headless, open world.

I would highly recommend this if you want to build Micro Frontend App then must try at once.


11. Back4app - Low-code backend to build modern apps

From databases to blockchain storage, we’ve got your backend covered


12.Dom Cloud - Classic Web Hosting Made Easy

A hosting service that serves all.

This is experimental as I have not tried before. Let me know if you are going to use.


13.Adaptable - The easiest way to deploy your FullStack App

Just connect your GitHub repository and let Adaptable handle the rest.


14.Microtica

Production-ready infrastructure and application templates to build solutions on AWS without ever opening the console.


15.Coherence - The First Developer Experience Platform

Get dev environments, full-stack branch previews, and deployments in one cohesive development experience — running in your cloud.


If you are college student, then you will access Microsoft Azure Services.
So,you can host your backend app such as Node JS, Django, PHP.

Conclusion

These are my list that, up till now, I have found and share with you so that you can use it for free and make you website live ⭐.

So, which one you are going to try?

Let me know in comment section. Moreover, If anything left in my list, please share it in comment as well 👍.

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Jackson Kasi • Edited

thank for share with us 😊 now I got to know some new! ( dev utile )

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Yusuf Adeyemo

Koyeb is a very good alternative I found lately.

Koyeb is a developer-friendly serverless platform to deploy apps globally. No-ops, servers, or infrastructure management.

I wrote an article on how to migrate from Heroku to Koyeb here

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OLUKINNI

Thank you for that...really needs it at this time

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Marco Colli

Cuber is also an alternative to Heroku.

You define a Cuberfile with about ~10 lines of code that describe your application, then you type cuber deploy in your terminal to deploy your app on Kubernetes on any cloud provider.

Cuber is free and open source and Kubernetes is usually much cheaper than a PaaS like Heroku. Also if you use Cuber you don't have to deal with all the complexity of Kubernetes.

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Meshv Patel

Thanks, I will add this in my list. 🤗⭐

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Phyo Arkar Lwin

wow thats acutally kind of kubernets i am looking. , let me check

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Sokhavuth TIN • Edited

Deta is the best choice if you want everything for free forever and unlimited space for database and applications. I think Deta is sponsored by the German government.

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Filip Ilić

What's their end goal? How do they earn money? I get something like firebase. But this is like, sponsored by German gov because they just want devs to be happy and productive. Maybe capitalism created this trust isues in me, but I need to know what do they get from this😃

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Sokhavuth TIN • Edited

I think maybe the EU wants to compete with the US by expanding their influence around the world. And the Internet is an option for this reason. However, here is Deta 's answer to the question how they make money:

How are you going to make money?
We're working on a big, parallel product that we will be announcing soon. This product will be responsible for generating revenue. Stay tuned!

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Ade Guntoro

which one is support laravel ? just like "simple-heroku".

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Mark Codes the Web

Try Railway. It can handle anything and has decent free terms. You only pay if you exceed your limits and even then it’s very cheap compared to other types of hosting. Really good database support too.

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Meshv Patel

Hey, I have already told in this. Railway is providing laravel support. So just check it out....

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Tech Tim (@TechTim42)

regarding the self host PaaS alternative, I made an article

dev.to/timhub/self-host-heroku-alt...

It is focusing on PaaS and self host

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Meshv Patel

Hey 👋 all, just share this with your friends so that they can get to know about this...
Thanks 👍.

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Krypton

Nice list, I never knew there were actually that many 😆
I'd also add that Vercel is a nice, also pretty similar to Netlify.

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official_dulin

People can practice how to migrate their projects and get familiar with the new services, which is good.

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Wilmela

Thanks

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Raymond Wangsa Putra

Nice nice nice

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Jan Küster

Meteor Galaxy also offers a free tier incl. light Mongo. If you intend to make an app with pub/sub, mongo, reactivity etc. this is a considerable offer.l

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Luke Cartwright

Here is a helpful resource I was shared recently:
Provides suggestions for a variety of Web dev services that have great free tiers.

GitHub logo ripienaar / free-for-dev

A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

free-for.dev

Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all to make informed decisions.

This is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other offerings that have free tiers for developers.

The scope of this particular list is limited to things that infrastructure developers (System Administrator, DevOps Practitioners, etc.) are likely to find useful. We love all the free services out there, but it would be good to keep it on topic. It's a bit of a grey line at times so this is a bit opinionated; do not be offended if I do not accept your contribution.

This list is the result of Pull Requests, reviews, ideas and work done by 1100+ people. You too can help by sending Pull Requests to add more services or by remove ones whose offerings have…

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Meshv Patel

Yea, I have visited this link. But I thought it it quite big list So If I am going to add this then my list probably too large..

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Lucas León

Check out Acorn