As developers, most of us definitely like to try out new frameworks, tools, and a lot of stuffs in our hobby projects. Well you know, our typical fun project stuff. After finishing the project locally, of course we would like to publish or deploy our project to production for people to try it out right.
The main idea is for people that had little knowledge or just not very eager to build the entire project from source to be able to use or try our creation as well. For the last few years (or maybe months), Heroku platform was a very reliable cloud hosting platform since it provides free tier or hobby tier for us. But since the announcement of them shutting down every free tier for freebies enjoyer like me personally, I was considering where I should move my projects. Therefore, after some look up and test drive, Here are few Heroku FREE alternatives that could be useful for our hobby project so that we don’t have to own our own server.
1. Github Pages
Provided by github themselves, Github Pages is a very reliable ‘static web’ hosting platform. All you have to do is push your code to your github account and you can host the static app right away from the repo settings. If you saw pages with ‘github.io’ url, it means it is hosted in Github Pages.
2. Vercel
Next up is Vercel. Vercel is also a very reliable front-end deployment service, they specialize on Next Js as their own framework and developing Next Js project to vercel is as easy as connecting the repo to your vercel app. Check out more about Next Js framework here.
3. Netlify
Netlify is a very popular and well-known among developer since they provide web app deployment for free as well. Netlify has been utilized by developer for years and have so many good review on it.
4. Firebase
Firebase is a static web deployment platform where most of Node Js enthusiast go for. Firebase is a platform provided by Google and also supported by Google Cloud. Therefore integrating Firebase with your GCP project or any Google API is easier than ever.
5. Deta
Last but not least is Deta. Deta might be the one for services app where it allows you to deploy either Python or Node Js project. It is very simple to use and it provides so many feature such as scalability, easy deployment, CLI app and even provides you with their NoSQL database called DetaBase. *psst, they stated that they are free for ever.
