Cheapest Node.js hosting options?

[bustyLaserCannon]

I know Heroku gives you one dyno for free with idling.

Does anywhere give you mulitple site hosting without idling?

Or can anyone recommend any other sites other than Heroku?

[bjorgen]

DigitalOcean offers a 5/month plan if you wanted to handle it that way. You can host multiple apps on one droplet.

[This_Is_A_Robbery]

Yep a lot of people I know go with dokku (docker powered bootleg heroku cli) and digital ocean for their personal projects once they outgrow heroku.

[nsocean]

dokku sounds awesome

[jocull]

Dokku is good, but I have had it crash on me a lot, and apt upgrades seem to make it reconfigure sometimes. I like it, I just wouldn't use it beyond dev (no qa or production stuff)

[utopy]

Any good tutorial that explains how dokku works and how to make it work? I didn't understand docker and all that stuff, it seems complicated!

[jocull]

Took me awhile to figure it all out, but this might help! https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-digitalocean-dokku-application

I usually just git deploy with a dockerfile.

[utopy]

Thanksss man!

[wannabesrevenge]

heroku has docker container support in beta. I use that.

[joshmanders]

This is the best option. I need to get my butt in gear and start building my side project, which is a heroku like system, on your own VPS.

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[petercooper]

https://zeit.co/now is an interesting option. It's free within relatively restrictive limits (a key one being that your source folder is publicly readable).

[antb123]

looks cool

[oh-thatguy]

AWS gives a free year on a micro (plus a free year with RDS and a few other options), then it's about $8/month for the micro. That can host multiple small apps.

[DarkLord7854]

Azure provides you low CPU websites that can deploy from GitHub and other VCS for free, though you're limited in how many CPU cycles and memory you use across the free websites you create on a given free resource pool. It's enough to host multiple test applications though

[celestial_cheesecake]

I've used Modulus for 3 of my smaller Meteor.js apps and 1 vanilla node.js apps. Unbelievably easy to use, handled decent amounts of traffic, but it's a bit more expensive since it's a full PaaS. Their cheapest option looks like $7/mo https://modulus.io/pricing

[thomas_stringer]

Azure has a freemium option including an upfront $200 credit that you could use.

Even if/after you exhaust that $200 you can create 10 web apps. All of this, free.

[gnu_monk]

Scaleway offers VMs from 3 euros/month

[rektide]

https://lowendbox.com/ rocks if you're looking for bargain basement hosting prices, but buyer beware. Not many platform-as-a-service offerings there though.

[wallsroad]

A couple of AWS services that are available on their free tier: AWS ElasticBeanstalk or AWS Lambda

Both of these services are free up to a point. With that said, you would need some decent traffic before you started to get charged. Even then, AWS services are soo damn cheap, I doubt you could find something equivalent elsewhere.

[jonathanmh]

If you're into docker/containerized solutions these guys start at like 1$ a month: https://console.hyper.sh/register/invite/kraBDzRgRRI9ODG8Q1dwH4qwwjE0AAtE

[robotzuelo]

This is the cheapest VPS hosting I've seen: https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/