6 Options To Host Your Node.js App In 2022
Aug 1, 2022
### 6 Free Ways To Host Your Node.js App In 2022
\[Updated August 2022\]
So, you had a nice idea — you developed it, but now, you really don’t want to pay a monthly fee to a hosting provider. (And I totally understand you 😍) + corona crisis is just making you even cheaper.
I've updated the info for 2022 and added new free providers!
Don’t worry I’ve got your back! I listed here 6 of the best options with all the information you need — so let’s start!
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### #1 — Openshift (Red Hat)
**Highlights:**
* 2GB RAM, 2GB Persistent storage
* Unlimited network
* 1 Project per account
* Credit card — Not required
* Support — Community
* Considered secure
**Limitations/The Catch:**
* No custom domain
* Resource hibernation — Your project resources sleep after 30 minutes of inactivity, and must sleep 18 hours in a 72-hour period
* Expiration — Your subscription automatically expires after 60 days; resubscribe as often as you like
**Deployment:** Git (PaaS)
**Next tier cost**: Starts at $50/mo
**Most suitable for**: Small backend services, APIs, chatbots
[https://www.openshift.com/products/pricing/](https://www.openshift.com/products/pricing/ "https://www.openshift.com/products/pricing/")
### #2 — Firebase functions
**Highlights:**
* Invocations - 125K/month
* GB-seconds - 40K/month
* CPU-seconds - 40K/month
**Limitations/The Catch:**
* Outbound networking - Google services only. quite problematic for many cases
**Deployment:** CLI
**Next tier cost**: Pay-as-you-go
**Most suitable for**: Small backend services, APIs
### #3 — [Deta.sh]()
**Highlights:**
* 128 MB of RAM
* Running Nodejs 14.x by default
* Unlimited projects (!)
* Credit card — Not required
* Support — Community
**Limitations/The Catch:**
* Read-only file system. Only /tmp can be written to. It has a 512 MB storage limit - like a serverless function such as lambda
* HTTP Payload size limit is 5.5 MB.
* An execution times out after 10s
**Deployment:** CLI — NPM module (PAAS)
**Next tier cost**: space program - price is unknown
**Most suitable for**: Small backend services, APIs, chatbots, open-source projects
### #4— Heroku
**Highlights:**
* 512mb RAM, No Persistent storage
* Unlimited network
* Custom domain support
* Credit card — Not required but your instance will have 550 hours a month (this mean it must sleep \~25% of the time), a verified account will give you 1000 hours a month (they will not charge you)
* Support — Business hour support, 1+ day response times
**Limitations/The Catch:**
* Sleeps after 30 mins of inactivity, otherwise always on depending on your remaining monthly free dyno hours. **tip -> **you can use a free ping service who will keep your service — I’m using [https://uptimerobot.com/](https://uptimerobot.com/ "https://uptimerobot.com/")
**Deployment:** CLI /Git (PAAS)
**Next tier cost**: Starts at $7 per month
**Most suitable for**: Fullstack project, or any type of small project
[https://www.heroku.com/pricing](https://www.heroku.com/pricing "https://www.heroku.com/pricing")
### #5 — Now.sh
**Highlights:**
* Serverless hosting!
* No limit for RAM, 100gb Persistent storage
* Network — up to 100 GB / mo
* Custom domain support
* Credit card — Not required
* Support —Community/Twitter
* Serverless invocations — 1,000 / day
* Maximum Execution Time- 10 seconds
**Limitations/The Catch:**
* Maximum File Size — 100mb
* Compared to 2020 the service is better much stabilized, but still might be bumpy
**Deployment:** CLI /Github integration/ Desktop app (PAAS)
**Next tier cost**: Starts at $0.99 per month
**Most suitable for**:
* Light compute Backend
* full-stack project
[https://zeit.co/pricing](https://zeit.co/pricing "https://zeit.co/pricing")
### #6— Glitch
**Highlights:**
* Glitch is a friendly community where everyone can discover and create the best stuff on the web — which means you can also host the app there!
* No limits specified, run on a container
* Unlimited Network
* Custom domain support
* Credit card — Not required
**Limitations/The Catch:**
* By default — All code is open source, but you can change it to private for free
* 200MB disk space limit/ 512MB assets storage space.
* 512MB RAM
* For free users, Glitch apps go to sleep after five minutes of inactivity — if an app is waking up, your users might see a loading screen (we do this to keep our servers happy). Boosted apps don’t sleep and are always ready to go
**Deployment:** Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket (PAAS)
**Next tier cost**: 8$ monthly
**Most suitable for**: Pretty much everything open-source, you should try it
[https://glitch.com/pricing](https://glitch.com/pricing "https://glitch.com/pricing")
