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!

#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/

#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

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#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/

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

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#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

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#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