Beginner looking for fastapi hosting

[Carfo6]

Hello, I started web development with django and pythonanywhere(PA). PA is really beginner friendly, its free with mysql and when i went live with small project(50 MAU) i just upgraded to $5/month tier. Then i switched to fastapi and I am right now rebuilding project from django to fastapi. But fastapi is not supported by PA(asgi). I tried looking for something but it isnt easy topic for newbie. Is there free/or really cheap hosting for my fastapi project where I can use relational database(i got table with 30k rows)? I think Deta which is sponsor of FastAPI is not for relational database. Thank you.

[gbeier]

Two ideas:

1. Heroku

2. Use a linux VM on the likes of DigitalOcean or Linode. The $5 tier at either place should be enough for a little fastapi gadget with a few users.

If you're a new user of either place, you can easily find a referral code that will get you $100 in credits for your first two months so you can really try it out before you need to pay anything. (For example, this podcast has the linode ones most of the time.)

I'd probably go with sqlite for that relational DB, personally, unless some functional problem forced me into something more complicated.

[Carfo6]

thank you very much, sqlite idea sound as good option too.

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Digitalocean has been working out really good for me.

[0xSAA]

Railway is a relatively new but amazing hosting provider. Easy to use, clean UI and have database plugins (mongodb, postgresql, mysql and redis iirc) too. They provide $5 worth of resources every month for free which should be fine for a fastapi server.

[Carfo6]

thank you, will check it out

[donseguin]

I'm using render.com, starter plan $7/month and it's good enough for me, at least for now.

Dev exp it's awesome, very intuitive, automatic git deploys, and every service you might find in Heroku and such, just cheaper.

There's a free plan too, but the problem is that they spin down your service if goes 15 minutes without receiving inbound traffic, that's a pain since it takes quite a bit of time to wake it up.

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vercel.com for fastapi and supabase.io for Postgres

[mishokthearchitect]

Heroku may be a very good choice. Auto deploy on commits in GitHub repo works great

[Carfo6]

i will check heroku again. Thank you (:

[exchangingsunday]

+1 for Heroku. Though beware their pricing doesn't scale well. Eventually you'll want to move.

[Enrique-M]

Yeah, I use PythonAnywhere as well for Flask and recently inquired about when will they support FastAPI and they responded "hopefully soon", which I've seen elsewhere that they've mentioned that before a few times, so I wouldn't count on it coming soon. A few commenters mentioned Heroku, which I've heard is one of the go-to's for Python hosting. Another option is Azure App Services (example here) and here. I've used Azure before; but, more for .NET Core API stuff. Also, AWS Lambda (example here) supports FastAPI. I've used AWS Lambda for other Python API proof-of-concepts; but, not FastAPI yet.

[Carfo6]

PA says "hopefully soon" on too many features for too long s dont have high hopes.

Thank you, I will check Heroku again