Hosting Solutions reviews from Reddit
Summary
We analyzed 137 Reddit reviews across 19 subreddits and 29 posts to rank the best Hosting Solutions brands recommended by redditors, including communities like r/webdev, r/selfhosted, r/dotnet, r/india, r/node. Top-rated brands include Netlify (4.8/5), DigitalOcean (4.2/5), AWS (4.5/5).
Stats
Reviews137
Subreddits19
Posts29
Brands72
Products53
137 reviews from
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#1
Netlify
4.8
(9)
"Netlify, Github Pages, Firebase, Vercel"
"I’m using netlify for last 2 years and so far it’s working great."
"Netlify is EXACTLY what you need"
"Free service with great features."
"Netlify"
"IMO the easiest solution is Netlify."
"My go-to recommendation is Netlify, especially for the deployment pipeline."
"They even have a handy form submission tool you can use."
"If they are just static websites then BitBalloon, Netlify, Firebase."
#2
DigitalOcean
4.2
(9)
"DigitalOcean offers affordable droplets starting at $5/month."
"Hands down best VPS for beginners."
"DigitalOcean is 5 dollars a month to host that."
"I'm using DigitalOcean for Node and MySQL."
"Personally, I use DigitalOcean, but other providers like Linode or Vultr can work well too."
"I run dokku on digital ocean. It is a Linux host running dokku, and dokku is kind of like heroku."
"Installation is easy and the lowest plan is sufficient for a blog with 300+ articles."
"Digital Ocean is a cloud provider."
"Digital Ocean - Great choice, would recommend."
#3
AWS
4.5
(8)
"AWS Amplify is a great choice for hosting static sites and is almost free."
"My advice would be to look into cloud hosting solutions such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform."
"Super simple, super cheap."
"AWS Lambda Functions support Python and are free for 2 million invocations."
"Serverless is dirt cheap and you can make use of the free tier. AWS can be tough for people who haven't worked with it before."
"AWS Lightsail offers affordable server options starting at $5."
"Aws ec2 instance like t3a.xlarge with S3 backups"
"Hosting static sites on AWS is cost-effective and easy to manage with CLI and Terraform."
#4
Hetzner
4.3
(7)
"Hetzner is about the best in the business these days."
"The old Hetzner Intel cloud servers handled high traffic exceptionally well."
"With 40k unique visitors a month, it can handle much more."
"Have look at https://www.hetzner.com/"
"Hetzner dirt cheap"
"I prefer to use Hetzner services for such projects."
"Good prices for simple cloud infrastructure."
#5
Digital Ocean
4.7
(6)
"Digital Ocean is recommended for hosting with a helpful tutorial available."
"Digital Ocean's $5 per month droplet is great for custom servers or databases."
"You can get a $5 droplet on Digital Ocean, then you can set up Nginx and host your static site from there."
"If you can handle a VPS, Digital Ocean!"
"Digital Ocean App Platform is a great service for running .NET applications using Docker."
"Affordable cloud hosting option at around $5 a month."
#6
Amazon Web Services
4.3
(6)
"S3 + CloudFront, which is the method I use to host my travel images works really well. Super fast delivery times, pretty cheap."
"If you already have the page, and you just need the delivery and storage, use AWS S3. For bonus points, connect it to a CloudFront distribution for even better delivery."
"AWS lightsail, has a few free tiers"
"Amazon web services.(EC2) or digital ocean."
"AWS is pretty great as well. They also offer free-tiers for the first year on most of their services."
"I dont know if AWS has what you need, but i recommend looking into it. AWS suite of apps have almost everything Ill ever need."
#7
Vercel
4.8
(5)
"I think you should try Vercel."
"Vercel is free and extremely easy to set up (for UI, especially if you are using nextjs)."
"Vercel. They are a great organization that supports open source software very well."
"Vercel, Github pages, netlify."
"I also tried Vercel for some projects."
#8
5.0
(4)
"It's super simple and for all intents and purposes free for hobbyists."
"Google Firebase offers all the front end and Cloud Functions that support Python."
"Cloud Functions support Python and are included with free databases."
"Google Apps for Business offers essential tools for communication and collaboration, making it a reliable choice for businesses."
#9
GitHub Pages
4.5
(4)
"GitHub pages."
"I would recommend you to use Github Pages for hosting only static websites."
"I also tried GitHub pages for some projects."
"Github Pages are also a great option."
#10
Heroku
4.0
(4)
"Heroku also supports .NET applications and offers a free tier, though with some limitations."
"I'd recommend hosting the app on Heroku anyway."
"Heroku might meet your needs?"
"Heroku is pretty good and easy to set up as well."
#11
VPS
4.0
(3)
"Our VPS packages range from $5 - $20 a month. We can help you get setup."
"I have 2 running right now on my VPS. You can check the speed if you want."
"Get a cheap VPS - it's probably useful for other things."
#12
Oracle Cloud
4.5
(2)
"Oracle Cloud for sure should be #1, free 4c 24gb 200gb aarch64 Linux server"
"Oracle cloud: 4 core (arm) and 24gb VM for free (always free) Yes it's really that good."
#13
Fly.io
4.5
(2)
"Fly.io is the best service by far. I'm hosting a bunch of my .Net applications. You can automate it with github actions too."
"You can go with Railway, Fly.io, or Render."
#14
Google Cloud Platform
4.5
(2)
"Cloud run on GCP
Swear I’ll never use anything else again. Has it scale to 25k per second on one service when an extreme load came in."
"If the apps are containerised then use CloudRun on GCP."
#15
MXRoute
4.5
(2)
"I'd suggest (and have been very happy with) mxroute."
"If you are looking for something inexpensive and reliable, check this reseller of MXRoute. Same great product as MXRoute with a much smaller plan (and cost)."
#16
Raspberry Pi
4.5
(2)
"You could self host this site with a Raspberry Pi and a properly tuned nginx server with fastcgi cache."
"A Raspberry Pi can easily handle the current site load."
#17
Google Cloud
4.5
(2)
"Google Cloud offers a free forever plan with a small server."
"Google Cloud Run is super cheap and fairly simple."
#18
Microsoft
4.5
(2)
"Amazing integration between VSCode, GitHub and Azure."
"Azure Container Apps is a great platform for deploying containers without the complexity of Kubernetes."
#19
GitLab
4.0
(2)
"If I would be searching for a managed service I would most probably choose the marketplace version of gitlab in gcp."
"There is an official list provided by gitlab on their website."
#20
Hostgator
4.0
(2)
"Hostgator offers great services for hosting."
"Try hostgator."
#21
Linode
4.0
(2)
"I would recommend a VPS arrangement with Linode."
"If you're interested in a VPS then I would recommend Linode."
#22
WordPress
4.0
(2)
"Excellent hosting service with great support!"
"WordPress back-end is slow. That is likely unrelated to anything about your host."
#23
Adeptcloud
5.0
(1)
"Talk to Denis at Adeptcloud /u/dzhirov He's MSP-friendly and takes care of his clients."
#24
Slash GraphQL
5.0
(1)
"The fact that it deployed a db from my GraphQL schema it is exactly what I needed."
#25
Azure App Service
5.0
(1)
"Azure App Service is a great option, providing free tiers and easy deployment for small ASP.NET projects."
#26
PostGraphile
5.0
(1)
"I like postgraphile. the documentation will hold your hand as you set up user creation, RBAC and row level data access control."
#27
Cloudflare Pages
5.0
(1)
"Cloudflare pages, netlify, GitHub pages. All comes with free plans."
#28
AWS AppSync
5.0
(1)
"I highly recommend AWS AppSync - it easily integrates with Cognito, DynamoDB and any other data store AWS offers."
#29
Space Cloud
5.0
(1)
"You may want to check out Space Cloud - [https://spaceuptech.com/](https://spaceuptech.com/)."
#30
Blazor
5.0
(1)
"Blazor WASM on Github Pages is free. You can add a custom domain using Cloudflare."
#31
1on1
5.0
(1)
"Works great for the price."
#32
Amazon
5.0
(1)
"I use a custom semi-self-hosted solution based on Amazon Simple Email Service."
#33
Migadu
5.0
(1)
"Migadu offers a very affordable pricing plan at $19 per year."
#34
GitHub
5.0
(1)
"It's free, nothing to do. A simple checkbox to tick on your repo."
#35
Midnight
5.0
(1)
"Great service for managed Ghost hosting!"
#36
ShockHosting
5.0
(1)
"I have used ShockHosting which is kindof excellent for atleast my use case and their Customer Service have been exceptional."
#37
Rocket.net
5.0
(1)
"Support has been very quick and responsive, even to the point that the owner was looking into Cloudflare WAF issues on my behalf."
#38
Oracle
5.0
(1)
"Oracle Free Tier offers a great opportunity to explore cloud services without any cost."
#39
Hanami
5.0
(1)
"Affordable email forwarding service with SMTP support."
#40
Cloudflare
5.0
(1)
"Using Cloudflare CDN significantly improves blog performance."
#41
GCP
5.0
(1)
"As long as you configure your free tier correctly you'll be at zero to free per month."
#42
Asphostportal
5.0
(1)
"I personally use Asphostportal and I can quite recommend their service."
#43
Firebase
5.0
(1)
"Firebase is an excellent platform for app development!"
#44
DynamoDB
5.0
(1)
"Using DynamoDB instead of MongoDB makes storage basically free."
#45
Bluehost
5.0
(1)
"Bluehost is a reliable hosting provider."
#46
OneDrive
4.0
(1)
"If you need to upload documents and photos, and not make a website out of them, why not try OneDrive or Google Drive?"
#47
Fresh Roasted Hosting
4.0
(1)
"Fresh Roasted Hosting and A2 Hosting offer budget-friendly shared host."
#48
A2 Hosting
4.0
(1)
"Fresh Roasted Hosting and A2 Hosting offer budget-friendly shared host."
#49
Prismic
4.0
(1)
"I would look at a cms like prismic or sanity and build it out on nuxt and netlify."
#50
Uptime Robot
4.0
(1)
"Use free monitoring solution such as uptime robot."
#51
HestiaCP
4.0
(1)
"Install HestiaCP LEMP stack"
#52
Hasura
4.0
(1)
"Hasura if you're comfortable working with PostgresQL databases."
#53
Hostings.info
4.0
(1)
"You can easily choose your hosting by the parameters here https://hostings.info/hostings/filter_page."
#54
Namecheap
4.0
(1)
"Get a domain name at a decent registrar like Namecheap."
#55
fl0.com
4.0
(1)
"Haven't used it yet but you can take a look at fl0.com It apparently has a rather generous free tier and it does support .net out of the box."
#56
Elestio Managed Gitlab Instances
4.0
(1)
"My company Elestio is offering fully managed Gitlab instances, price starts at $20 per month for a dedicated instance."
#57
Hosted Git
4.0
(1)
"Suggesting hosted-git.com You can choose any location out of all the available options."
#58
Azure Container Instance
4.0
(1)
"You could could run it in an Azure container instance. Those are cheap."
#59
buyvm.net VPS
4.0
(1)
"Buyvm.net VPS $15/Year"
#60
Aruba Cloud
4.0
(1)
"I'm using Aruba cloud and have been for the past year."
#61
Railway
4.0
(1)
"You can go with Railway, Fly.io, or Render."
#62
Render
4.0
(1)
"You can go with Railway, Fly.io, or Render."
#63
Hosting Made Great
4.0
(1)
"HostingMadeGreat might be a good option to check out!"
#64
PythonAnywhere
4.0
(1)
"Look at a PaaS such as Python Anywhere, Heroku, Google App engine."
#65
Nextcloud
4.0
(1)
"For reliable video calls with Nextcloud Talk for up to 10-20 users, 8 vCPU cores and 30GB RAM is a good starting point."
#66
HostKoala
4.0
(1)
"They are like 5 bucks a year and have personally used its really decent."
#67
Gitlab
4.0
(1)
"Gitlab has more features and is easier to use for static websites."
#68
CapRover
4.0
(1)
"I use Azure for work, but for personal projects, CapRover on a cheap VM works great."
#69
VPS Provider
4.0
(1)
"Get dedicated vps - not a shared one and you’ll be fine. Doubling the cores and RAM creates headroom."
#70
MS Dev Web Hosting
4.0
(1)
"Very low fixed cost with domain, email, MSSQL database, and tech support."
#71
Medium
4.0
(1)
"Republishing on Medium enhances discoverability and audience reach."
#72
Llama
4.0
(1)
"The Llama 3 8B parameter model provides performance comparable to much larger models while being small enough to run on a single GPU."
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