3 Alternatives for Heroku's Free Tier - Full Stack & API Hosting

[@TraversyMedia]

Let us know if you have any other suggestions. Some of the requirements to be considered a Heroku alternative (imo) are ease of use, no credit card, backend services (not just serverless).

[@felicytatomaszewska]

I have a question does any of these have CLI because I love using CLI … It’s just personal preference

[@dgloria]

Hi Brad, I am looking for a free LAMP server for a very small app. If the app will be successful one day, I'm happy to pay for it, but now, until the first working app is finished I find DigitalOcean's £7 a month a bit too much for using the server less than 1 hour a month.

[@ryanstevens869]

I am trying to add your latest mern app to render. the goal list and I keep getting a fail. would love if you could do a quick video on that. specifically it cant find the middleware

[@danishfaisal2618]

Please let me know how can I deploy an app like your MERN Expense Tracker in which we add a "heroku-postbuild" script to run the client?

[@JasonJA88]

Do you know any good unmetered VPS

[@thy_minimalist]

Brad, you are truly concerned about our well-being as developers. We are so grateful to have you. You do not know how much you have saved me. When I saw the email from heroku about ending their free tiers, I didn't know where else to go or what to do because as a self taught developer and a student, before using heroku I had tried netlify and it gave me a hard time to use smoothly, so I settled with heroku. But now, you have just given me alternatives. Thank you so much!!!!

[@ntigirishari]

Man, you're not the only one feeling that way😀 I was actually going to use Netlify when I stumbled on Brad's video! @TraversyMedia, thanks so much🙏🙏

[@amjad-se]

The bro all developers have but didn't know they needed 👊

[@urten6460]

What? 😂

[@jumamuhombolage7473]

🤯

[@asanokatana]

The thing about Heroku is, as well, that it jumps to $7 per dyno now, at a minimum. I totally am ok with charges, I’m not entitled to free hosting even for dev / test environments, but at $7 *per dyno* I might as well spin up an instance of Lightsail and host multiple apps on a single instance (dev / test only, of course). It’s such a sharp jump for Heroku. You’d think they’d transition to something like $7 for 10 dynos or something. But it’s not surprising, Salesforce isn’t really for devs, it’s for business teams and people who want “low code”. Salesforce making moves to make Heroku less attractive to devs was expected at some point.

[@bearcountrypublishing5303]

My thought.. That just seems counter productive. Wouldn't you think that those devs who had to move to light sail or elsewhere, would be paying those places instead of heroku, when the build is bigger and needing scaled. I think they will stay where they developed it. It kinda sounds like heroku wants to give away their business to all the competition, or no?

[@JamesQQuick]

Love it! So many great hosting options out there!

[@junog5552]

Much love, brad! I got into MERN recently and I've been learning new things along the way. But when I went to host my micro practice projects to get feedbacks from others, I was limited to enter my credit card in Heroku. I wasn't sure what to do. This video helped me a lot. Keep up the good work. God bless you.

[@fabulousgamer2293]

Heyy bro...I am a beginner in MERN stack nowadays...but getting into a problem recently...can you help me?

[@zlackbiro]

My vote goes for Cyclic! Its direct just like heroku but even better, easier to use, no spin down, everything is unlimited up an running.

[@antoniofuller2331]

Whoa!!!

[@shaun374]

But you only get 3 projects on it. That's the downside

[@enaholoakhere4068]

This is the comment i was looking for

[@0xTRellyx0]

does railway have spin down?

[@vivekkoul4428]

@@shaun374 after 3 what?

[@abhishekwanve1519]

Railway is Best, deployed in less than 5 min. In Render, you have to deploy the frontend, backend separately is not a good option because it can cause problems in cookie token formation. Versel host only serverless sites also in the free version there is a time limit for server request.(my learning by trying all these options) Like if find helpful👍👍🎉 EDIT: railway has a Limit per month will work 22 days. Cyclic is better it hasn't any limit on time but it has a build limit ie build folder limit(around 256MB).this limit is fair enough if your project is not too too complex it will get deployed

[@onestepwebdev]

Note to Brad: Just got my NYC Events app back and running on Railway like a dream. Thanks for the heads-up and your ongoing diligence! All the best!

[@asthanegi3908]

Can railway support hosting a project that used MERN stack ?

[@mohammedbannamamohammed8324]

The Best Dev Channel of our generation Kudos Brad

[@chaswards]

I looked into all three of these myself, as I am just now trying to migrate my projects over from Heroku, and I think Railway was the easiest to set up from my experience. Super easy if you are like me and are trying to push a full stack app with database

[@yodkwtf]

yep I tried render and railway for multiple projects and railway the easiest of them all to set up.

[@asthanegi3908]

Can It support a project which was made using MERN stack

[@durgesh-chaudhary]

@@asthanegi3908 yeah if you set up your commands right

[@hattietavares2923]

So useful to see how easy deployment is with these, thank you!

[@SamuelOsaronungwe]

I really appreciate your help, I was indeed stranded and you came through. Thanks for the tip 👍👍

[@programminem]

Thanks you so much Brad! 😀 Without you I never would have been a developer. Thanks for saving self-taught developers like me

[@whereIsJerome]

Brad, thank you for this. Your videos are life savers. I can't count the number of times your tutorials pulled me out of a downward spiral of frustration and confusion.

[@itamarribeiro8865]

I've made those tests and what worked better at least for me was Cyclic, I'll make a couple more tests with it, thanks for the tips Brad

[@ashongabdalla5940]

Thank you so much. I just hosted my first MERN app, which I've been trying to do for months (on the first attempt. Literally). Thanks once again. ❤❤

[@brucelee7782]

Omg I was just looking a few weeks ago to host my fullstack app and you released this, thank you so much!

[@MrSeanJines]

Brad, I reviewed many of your online courses, I feel A certain trust with your videos, Thank You for all your assistance. As what would be considered as a hobbyist. I would like to communicate with on a more private basis, in order to protect my idea. These and many of your videos have been a tremendous help. Not sure if you can see my email from this content. I did not see an email address on your web site, so I figured I,would reach out here. As for all others who watch this video I would absolutely subject to follow Brad as his video’s are unbiased, and he will tell you if it is just his opinion when it is. I found an unusual amount of trust in his training videos. Prosperous Wishes!

[@zombiefacesupreme]

Thank you so much, Brad. All 3 of these look fantastic!

[@Julio860JVL]

Happy birthday Brad! Thank you for all these years of content. You have changed a lot of lives for the better. Thank you.

[@nextleveltech267]

Sir you really helped me.... Thanks a lot❤

[@mistah_mojo]

one, thank you SO MUCH for uploading this now! two, I'm really enjoying actually seeing you more in these videos!

[@Gpassinho]

my favorite youtube channel

[@winstonmhango3437]

Just in time....thank you very much Brad.

[@kgarun]

Thanks for the suggestions. I was trying to host a fastapi website and railway was quick&easy.

[@alaeeddinehajji]

I'm lucky because I enabled the notification , I was searching for this topic and you published what I want

[@mphumelelierrolntetha2103]

Thanks my brother bringing this to my attention. I wasn't aware of this and my APIs are deployed in Heroku too.

[@beomseok5957]

Helpline📲📥⬆️ Question can come in⬆️..

[@GuiltyGamingJay]

Thank you very much , been coding for a while and i needed a place to host my projects

[@shoneUTD]

great, just what I need, thanks Brad!

[@Salah-YT]

thank u so much my best teacher, Mr Brad 👍👍👍👍👍

[@n3cro2012]

Ayyyeee. Brad always coming in clutch. Keep up the good work.

[@yashwantsahu3002-ram]

Your such life saver for me thanks. Actully, heroku got down my all free hosted app on it.

[@nickstaresinic9933]

Thanks for the super & timely content, Brad.

[@michaelantoni8323]

I new it, you're going to make a video about this. Thank you Brad as always.

[@khalidelgazzar]

Thank you, Brad. Seems that railway (option 2) is simple and straightforward to the extent that you can directly place your custom domain during the deploy process As for cyclic (option 3) it seemed to be the fastest in deployment

[@asthanegi3908]

Can railway support hosting a project that used MERN stack ?

[@khalidelgazzar]

​@@asthanegi3908I suppose yes. Haven't tried, but it looks like it does so flawlessly

[@danishpinjari6037]

my all 3 servers are running thank you sir for such a great explanation

[@successezeh2009]

Thank you so much Brad for this tutorial. You are such a lovely big brother.😊

[@ajagaabdulbasit]

Awesome, Thanks traversy

[@msrumon]

I switched to Easypanel, deployed it in a VPS and called it a day. Not free actually, but it's better in most ways for me.

[@arnoldtvisagie]

Thanks man. This is a really helpful video. I'm new to all of this and your video really gave me a better understanding.

[@mrashad_com]

As always, dedicating time to watch your videos proves to be a valuable and worthwhile investment of my time. Many thanks!

[@dugsiiye]

Absolutely Amazing Thanks Man .

[@ricardocnn]

In my opinion, backend as a service is the present and the future of back end

[@TraversyMedia]

Yeah, I appreciate that things are getting easier. From 2010 to like 2017, things seemed like they kept getting more difficult

[@patrickkdev]

I deployed my Strapi service easily in Render but Cyclic is failing to build it. In Render all I had to do is set the build command to yarn; yarn build. But Cyclic does not provide the option to change commands. I noticed it gets the commands from the projects package.json, but even after changing the build command from there, Cyclic still fails on build :(

[@ermiasasmare9995]

You are the reason of my software developer carrier thankyou so much u are the best there is

[@morahstephen5548]

Was literally waiting for this

[@LAVISHGOYAL]

Brilliant video! Was finding alternatives for my various small projects hosted on Heroku's free tier, especially for testing purposes. Also, if you don't mind can I write a blog post for Heroku alternatives referencing your video and adding some additional alternatives that I found on my own?

[@TraversyMedia]

Thanks. Yeah, a blog post would be great :)

[@electricimpulsetoprogramming]

link it

[@ravikjha07]

Thank You For The Alternatives !!!! I will try it today only !!!

[@craiggazimbi]

As always thank you so much Brad, I have become a better developer all thanks to you. Thank you for your educational content and guidance. I would love to discuss something with u left a message.

[@pratikdesai9255]

This channel need more supporters. Just support them guys.✌❤

[@deejaydev]

Yeah BabaBard , I got that email too, I was freaking out but... thanks Brother for sharing!

[@Hacking-NASSA-with-HTML]

Thank you so much, Brad🤝! Just one more comment to boost the signal of your videos✅!

[@hamid.mahmood96]

Cyclic is very handy.... thanks brad

[@Valyssi]

I've also seen Fly being recommended by FullStackOpen as an alternative to Heroku at least for that course. It's been working for me so far but haven't compared it to the others yet

[@fredianriko5648]

all my concern was said by you sir, Thank you, truly Thank you

[@williamsbolu9829]

Thanks brad. This really helped a lot😊

[@dreamisover9813]

Great video idea! I have some apps on the heroku free tier as well atm

[@derrickayitsey8984]

Thank you so much for the tutorial. very great video

[@pavel4415]

Dude, thank you for the video, it's really helpuf!

[@vivienhounsounou1867]

It's time we start building our own cloud hosting for simple stuff and only use those cloud guys for commercial stuff. Fireship did something about building our own aws, that's a great start

[@anthoniG]

I can not find that video on fireship's page. Do you have a direct link please?

[@vivienhounsounou1867]

@@anthoniG kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5Wrp4ZmeZatd6s

[@felicytatomaszewska]

Are you a wizard or use telepathy because I was today thinking about future path as I just came to know today that Heroku is ending its free tier. The timing of your video couldn't be better. Thank you so much for a informative video and tutorial.

[@Arabian_Abomination]

I've used heroku free tier for almost a decade, sad to see them charging now.

[@TraversyMedia]

I get it. They have to make money. The free tier was very helpful though, especially for beginners

[@Mark98T]

Thank you. I had considering to rent a vps when heroku free tier shut down

[@asimal-qasmi9256]

Five minutes ago, I was thinking of searching for this topic Are you a mind reader?😉 I'll see your video

[@TraversyMedia]

Maybe. A lot of people say that. If I am, I don't know about it :)

[@abdisiraj7060]

You are a good man. You should be proud of yourself. God bless you.

[@chimex1149]

Thanks a lot Brad!!

[@Yogesh_Kushwaha]

How do you make thumbnail for your all videos? They are very unique and I can identify you with them 😀

[@TraversyMedia]

I just use Adobe XD. I keep the same template and just change text, colors, images, etc

[@ajagaabdulbasit]

@@TraversyMedia thanks Brad for sharing your recipe 😊

[@technotambo2]

This is very very helpful! Thank You!

[@yogeshc7241]

Great video! Thankyou so much for this

[@priyankaroberts1093]

Hey Yogesh Do you usually learn through these online tutorials? Would you be interested in exploring internship/job opportunities in web development?

[@bigfoot_ke]

Right on time Brad💪🏽

[@nesafarm]

Thanks for this Brad!

[@iruafeimi]

That's my mentor coming to the rescue!

[@GarryThakur07]

Very helpful stuff!!!

[@jonkatabg8934]

Thank you so much!

[@eduAIJourney]

Thank you Much needed

[@empiregaming3675]

Thanks man You give very good options

[@cairink2110]

Perfect Timing 👍👍

[@aroundtheworldwithfootball4460]

render got my job done i used docker, python and mongodb

[@JohnMitchellCalif]

super useful! Subscribed

[@julianifesiokwu8088]

Thank you Brad really concerned about us dev. The Godfather. Thanks again.

[@soniablanche5672]

The problem with render is the cold start is much longer than heroku. It takes like 15 seconds and the server will be up for 15 minutes IIRC.

[@tiisetsontsoane5809]

Bro on my side it takes 2 minutes

[@oscarfelix7244]

Thats a Dope Underdogdevs Tee. Represent 🤘🏼

[@jasonhusain570]

Hi, Brad. How do I hide my API key before deploying to Cyclic?

[@muhammadidrees6650]

Thanks Brad :)

[@abdoulkarimbalde2802]

Thank you for this tutorial, it's really helpful.

[@RameshKumar-mv3jd]

Thanks, bro. You're a life saver! It's good to have a trusted source recommending these alternatives. I deployed my final project for the bootcamp I just finished to Heroku, and I was worried about that and future portfolio protects and where I was going to host them. I will try all three of your recommendations as I build.

[@priyankaroberts1093]

Hey Ramesh Are you interested in exploring job opportunities in Software development currently? Have you built any projects in React?

[@beomseok5957]

@@RameshKumar-mv3jd Helpline📲📥⬆️ Question can come in⬆️..

[@pixelmane]

@@priyankaroberts1093 Hey, if you are still looking for react devs please reach out :)

[@AliSattarBarani]

I prefer render

[@TraversyMedia]

I will most likely be using Render for tutorials

[@lasue7244]

Why? I tried Render but it takes so much time to deploy and for api ready to be reqeustable. Cyclic seems much better. I have to see stuff they are offering but speedwise, render is slow

[@mohitsaud2071]

Thank You, Brad.

[@sskdev5116]

Awesome video!!! Needed this as I too have to now move from Heroku. I was wondering what were your thoughts on Digital Ocean App deployment. They seem to have simplified that version a bit. Even thought its not exactly free

[@joe2271]

Ugh… I really love your content and your style of teaching. You’ve really helped me up my game but damn I hate your flippin hat! As a Yankees fan and NYer it is difficult to let that go but I guess I must. All kidding aside, thanks for all you do my man.

[@andreslindo8543]

Who could possibly dislike this video?

[@clipstube7691]

Thank you brad

[@lydstyl]

Thank you, you solved my problem.

[@SZaferUlgur]

Brad is very good work and I saw on Twitter the question you asked. Well, I have a question. I wrote a backend using NodeJS and MSSQL. Can this code I have written be distributed on the three sites you have shown?

[@abdullahmanafikhi4438]

you are a life saver! thanks alot

[@christianmarvinorsua3079]

So glad you made this video

[@anand_dudi]

really need this thanks!

[@minor12828]

Great content dude keep it up 💪

[@chukwukagodwill7457]

Always count on you bro thanks 👍