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- Colocation.by doublerabbit
- Digital Ocean for backend, Vercel for frontendby sshussain270
- Hetzner + Coolify. Pretty fun, while low maintenance and great UX.by jlengrand
- Cloudflare mostly because workers and durable objects are so cheap.
- Cloudflare. Free tier, and prices bound to wall time, which is nice for side projects.by TheJCDenton
- I'm building thebay.cloud, so I'm biased - asking cause I want to hear what people actually useby ilmak1704
- Back in the day I used an old laptop sitting in my house running with its lid closed and free dynamic-DNS :)by frou_dh
- I use Hetzner - reasonable prices, EU based and one of the best benefits of AI is that running a pet server is no longer a real burden.by dannyboland
- I've built a tool: https://www.findhost.app/use-cases/side-project/by esher
- A suitably specc'ed VPS from any provider with a good enough reputation. You can start small and upgrade if/when needed. I used to be a fan of Linode, also Hetzner but their recent price hike was unfortunate. Any provider that's been around for a while will probably have similar services.by scorpioxy
- I think it's really worth considering self-hosting these days. Doesn't take much of a machine to run a web app, for instance.
I do a little of that, but for anything public I put it on a VPS.
I use one of the big providers; they're all the same. Empty linux virtual machine with an IP. That's all you need. They start at $4/month or so, maybe cheaper if you shop around.
by sejje