Backend Server Hosting Services [Part-1]

Many people are afraid of publishing their site, they don’t know where to publish it, and how to.

Here are a few free hosting services you should consider 🎉

Firebase

Firebase Hosting provides fast and secure hosting for your web app, static and dynamic content, and micro services.Firebase is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) Google service. It also allows you to host static websites for free. Firebase is very easy to use and provides a CLI to manage yours apps . They also support hosting cloud functions.

• Realtime Database: Term real time is little confusing but indeed Firebase is very different from normal databases. There are two main differences. First is the way it stores data and another is the way we access it. In normal database when data at backend get updated we need to refresh our browser or android app in order to get updated data, on other hand in firebase we don’t even need to refresh the page. Changes done from any other client browser will reflected to all connected clients without making any explicit server side call.
• JSON support: database is a type of non-relational database that is designed to store and query data as JSON documents, rather than normalizing data across multiple tables, each with a unique and fixed structure.
• Google support: Google Support is a useful documentation before we implement any feature in Firebase.
• Real-time synchronization: Real Time Synchronization will monitor folders for changes and copy new or modified files with a very short delay after the change has occurred. Real Time Synchronization can be very convenient and speeds up the synchronization process considerably. However, it will only copy new and modified files and it may not be appropriate in all situations.
• Rapid prototyping: Rapid Prototyping is an approach to software development that emphasizes quick, iterative development cycles and minimal feature sets. The goal in rapid prototyping is not to develop a product. The goal is to, as quickly as possible, build something that utilizes a technology or platform to the point that you can understand the strengths and weaknesses of that technology or platform.
• Highly secured: It’s the development team’s responsibility to correctly secure the database prior to it storing real data. In Google Firebase, this is done by requiring authentication and implementing rule-based authorization for each database table.
• Automatic scaling: Firebase scales up automatically, with no downtime. This scaling mechanism lets Firebase serve thousands of requests per second and millions of concurrent connections. You pay only for your actual usage based on storage size and the number of operations
• Firebase hosting: Firebase Hosting is production-grade web content hosting for developers. With a single command, you can quickly deploy web apps and serve both static and dynamic content to a global CDN (content delivery network). You can also pair Firebase Hosting with Cloud Functions or Cloud Run to build and host microservices on Firebase
• Easy and simple operation process

Link: https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting.

Note: I’m only going over the other services below with bird’s eye view keeping the length of blog post in mind. Please check my space for more updates which discuss each service at length.

AWS

AWS Amplify Hosting is a fully managed CI/CD and hosting service for fast, secure, and reliable static and server-side rendered apps that scale with your business. Supports modern web frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, Next.js, Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll, and more.

• Highly secured
• Perfectly adaptable
• Comprehensive documentation
• Improvised productivity factor
• Economical pricing structure
• Totally innovative solutions

InfinityFree

Free Unlimited Web Hosting for Both frontend and backend
Completely free website hosting with unlimited disk space and bandwidth. Its very good option to free hosting but some limitations like 50,000 hits in a day and Limited CPU.

• 99.9% uptime
• Free subdomain
• Totally free web hosting.
• Free SSL
• Unlimited storage

Link: https://infinityfree.net

Netlify

Netlify is everything you need to build fast, modern websites: continuous deployment, serverless functions, and so much more. But like the definition says, Netlify offers you cloud hosting services as well as present you with the ability to handle backend operations with its serverless backend service.

• Built-in CI/CD
• Domains & DNS management
• Automated previews of every commit
• Automated builds from Git
• Deploy to global Edge network
• Site previews for every push
• Instant rollbacks to any version
• Deploy static assets & dynamic serverless functions

Link : http://netlify.com

Hostman

Hostman is a very good platform for deploying your apps from gitHub. Its free upto 10 websites. Hostman is a cloud application platform for developers and startups. Build and run web apps and websites without managing servers and not spending days on setups or hiring a whole engineering team. This is Static websites only, you need to pay for dynamic sites.

Auto-deploy for any repository

• Built-in CI/CD
• SSL-first cloud platform
• 7 days trial, 3 static sites forever free

Link: https://hostman.com

Heroku

Heroku allows you to deploy quickly, forget about the infrastructure, and just focus on improving your app. Heroku is also great for beginners since its free tier of service covers everything newbies need. Heroku is a container-based cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS). Developers use Heroku to deploy, manage, and scale modern apps. Heroku is fully managed, giving developers the freedom to focus on their core product without the distraction of maintaining servers, hardware, or infrastructure.

• Easy to deploy
• Simple and fast processing saves a lot of time
• Free for side projects
• The scaling process is simple
• Minimal skill sets required for developers
• Setup and installation is simple
• Add-ons available
• Perfect for startups
• Minimal learning curve
• Easy and simple integration
• Excellent User Interface
• Detailed documentation
• Postgres hosting
• Adding collaborators is simple and easy
• The rollback process is simple
• GitHub integration
• MySQL integration

Please watch this space in future for more elaborate explanations of the services mentioned above.

Thank you for reading !