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[rovr138]

Well, I moved everything I had to a VPS for the time being because I left it to the end.

So I take this opportunity to ask, what alternatives have people moved to? I really haven't gone back to look what's out there.

Not looking for free, just alternatives to review.

[dcow → rovr138]

You can host static sites on DigitalOcean's app platform for free. Their lowest tier offering for non-static sites is like $5/mo. Might be worth checking out.

[xp84 → rovr138]

For what kind of an app? If I was tasked to put an app someplace today, the answer would depend if it was easily containerized, and what kind of scale you're talking about.

For small apps, if containerized, I would host on Google Cloud Platform using App Engine Flexible Environment: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible Add on their managed database, of course.

But also, random VPSs are so cheap that if it works fine as is, you could do a lot worse than just running it on Linode, Digital Ocean, Hetzner, etc.

[donnieashok → rovr138]

I went full blast into SQLite, agreed there's a migration job in between. But it's totally worth it. In fact my app is now 5x faster.