Best Alternatives To Heroku For hosting a NodeJS app for FREE

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I narrowed down the Node.Js hosting platforms I found to be the easiest to use. Both have similar specs on their free tier but note that free tiers usually have some limitations.
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@RaddyDev Год назад

I am curious about which platform you're going to be using and why?

@tsreenivas6550 Год назад

i am using Cyclic

@olusegunlight3190 Год назад

Cyclic

@withpikachu2402 Год назад

Just using hosting service. Deployment was much harder but it was ok once I did it

@Sameer.Trivedi 9 месяцев назад

I hated renders spinning down of projects, When I shared my project people would tell I cannot see anything, so I switched the backend to cyclic.

@jayedwards7520 8 месяцев назад

cyclic, unfortunately, doesn't work well with django. I gave it a whirl but it's features just aren't mature enough right now and it doesn't really offer the kind of support for non-NodeJS driven BE. If I have to massively modify my codebase (which runs quite well on render) to drive it on cyclic then it isn't saving me time unfortunately.

@olusegunlight3190 Год назад

A big thank you!! cyclic worked fine without no issues, was struggling with vercel then stumbled on your video. A big thanks to you bro!

@RaddyDev Год назад

Glad it helped!

@kartikgupta5566 8 месяцев назад

such amazing content the first pic showing difference between cyclic and render was enough to free my worries, I had previously hosted on render but due to inactivity delay i didn't like it, looks liky cyclic will perform better, thanks saved my time.

@edutech8909 Год назад

Thanks a lot, I was already getting confused on setting up using Render. But this explained really well and has helped me deploy. Thanks a lot! you earned another subscriber ;)

@RaddyDev Год назад

Glad it helped!

@PranavKJha 5 месяцев назад

This is precisely what I was searching for.

@challapavankumar5929 Год назад

thankyou so much bro! i wasted 1 hr on unwanted sites but cyclic worked on 1st time .

@hamras2012 Год назад

Thanks man 🎉 Worth it

@iagosilva5064 3 месяца назад

great video man, two amazing options

@codefoxx Год назад

I was about to recommend cyclic and that was the first one on your list haha

@muhammadmudassirsiddiqui3030 Год назад

It is much needed, thanks man

@RaddyDev Год назад

Happy to help

@khalidmohammed424 Год назад

Thank you, It was very useful!

@splendedspirit8626 4 месяца назад

great video man, no one else made any video on cyclic or render

@RaddyDev 4 месяца назад

Glad you liked it!

@ClubDeGanadores1 Год назад

thank you so much for helping, had a really hard time with Heroku, It was asking for $$$, New subscriber!

@RaddyDev Год назад

Glad I could help!

@udbhavvikramsingh3449 11 месяцев назад

Much needed 🎉

@djibrilm__- Год назад

thanks for the video finally I can deploy something for my portfolio thanks again.

@christopheradolphe Год назад

I recently complete a Node.js course and wanted to build a side project to put the knowledge into practice. However, I was still wondering were I could host my REST API application and your video shows up my YT feed. Many thanks.

@RaddyDev Год назад

Congrats and good luck with the side project!

@nurhanisdamia7947 Год назад

very much needed! thank you TT^TT

@RaddyDev Год назад

No problem 😊

@PassionateVideography 10 месяцев назад

Thanks brother this is amazing video keep posting videos. Great Content

@RaddyDev 10 месяцев назад

I appreciate the comment brother

@ArushaAscendExpeditions Год назад

Thanks man, This helps a lot

@RaddyDev Год назад

Glad to hear it!

@rafaelmacedo7155 Год назад

Thank you so much for share with us Bro.

@RaddyDev Год назад

My pleasure

@abhishekT700 5 месяцев назад

For me thr Render worked I think the Cyclic didnt worked because am using the EJS. Well thanks a lot mate U earned a sub Nice work

@spliffys303 Год назад

I've started to use Netlify which has a free tier. Mainly using this because our company does. Only frustration is the structure of my code needs to change because of how netlify functions work. So there's a little bit of a learning curve but not a bad thing!

@RaddyDev Год назад

I've head good things about Netlify, I need to try it. The platforms I mentioned are the same... I made a NodeJs project using MongoDB and I had to restructure my code to the way they do it to make it work. Not a big deal as you said

@swarooppatil10 Год назад

Ho brother could u please suggest me some youtube video for hosting Nodejs app on Netlify

@PRITESHKRSRV 10 месяцев назад

Hi bro/sis, I have tried many times to host my app.js node js file which includes routes to render html files but after deployment on netlify it always shows 404 error file can't be found. Can you tell me please what changes should I do for proper deployment

@valenciawalker6498 5 месяцев назад

Thank you

@ponmuthu..4796 Месяц назад

Great tutorial

@RaddyDev Месяц назад

Thank you!

@srikanthambaldhage5264 Год назад

Thank you very much Raddy. What if I want to host a fullstack application with database too. Can you please make one videos on this!

@dulanjanaabeyrathna Год назад

u can use railway

@Hacking-NASSA-with-HTML Год назад

Hi! Use Render for that.

@HanzMarkPT 5 месяцев назад

Thank man.

@patobeur41 6 месяцев назад

thx

@nguyenhoangnhutanhk16_hcm64 3 месяца назад

tks bro

@sarahahmed2112 Год назад

Thanks for the video. I need to deploy my MySQL database to work with the nodejsapp. Do you have recommendations for good mysql hosting platforms? It doesn't have to be completely free, because I know that would mean very low security, but my database isn't huge and I don't need exceptional security - if there's a good cheap option out there I'd like to know.

@RaddyDev Год назад

If you want to have them in one place, maybe Heroku or Render. Supabase is a popular PostgreSQL option worth exploring

@harishkumark9010 4 месяца назад

render works good for me

@regd9297 Год назад

Is it better to deploy your front and backend separately, or deploy them together ?

@RaddyDev Год назад

I can't say if it's better or worse, but its more modern to do them separately. Most people use a front end framework like Angular or React and everything is separate.

@MiguelVarona-uj2mm 23 дня назад

Cyclic is not available for new registrations.

@trjoksepha4770 Год назад

thnx

@RaddyDev Год назад

most welcome!

@googoochu3923 2 месяца назад

Can i host backend with websockets feature in these two servers like heroku or will it lose connection like deploying on vercel?

@Yash-ko1zh 2 месяца назад

Same problem I am also facing , did you got any free site to host?

@googoochu3923 2 месяца назад

@@Yash-ko1zh apparently render supports websockets connection for 5 mins

@Yash-ko1zh 2 месяца назад

@@googoochu3923 Thank you brother

@maisamhussaintoorie7119 10 месяцев назад

My project is built with ejs template and the directory of my project looks something like Main Project node_modules/ public (having css only) view (ejs files)/ app.js date.js package.json package-lock.json Question is will this work In such a structure of the project or not because I try to deploy it to firebase and netlify but it failed to show the page. Please 🙏 guide

@RaddyDev 10 месяцев назад

You won't be able to deploy a NodeJS project on those platforms. It has nothing to do with your project file structure, but the actual hosting provider. I believe that both Firebase and Netlify are for Static Sites only (JAMSTACK) which means no processing on the server with exception of serverless functions. You'll need a web service provider for NodeJs. The good free ones that I know of are Cyclic sh and Render. The free tiers are great for hobby projects and you can always upgrade if you need to. Luckily most platforms are fairly affordable now. With a budget of ~$5/mo you have a lot of options. Cyclic, Render, Heroku or even build your own VPS. Alternatively you can convert your website to a static website. I hope this helps

@maisamhussaintoorie7119 10 месяцев назад

@@RaddyDev So will my project be deployed to cyclic sh accurately with ejs template as you directed in the video?

@RaddyDev 10 месяцев назад

@@maisamhussaintoorie7119 EJS will work, but the problem you might face is that everything is counted as a request. If you have 2 images on your site, that's 2 requests gone. You could host your files elsewhere, an example would be Amazon S3 Bucket. Good option if you need a CDN. I don't know the specifics of your project, but a cheap VPS is a good option.

@kemalsogut9342 5 месяцев назад

I receive "This site can’t provide a secure connection" error after a while and also when I try to open the app on other devices. Any suggestion?

@RaddyDev 5 месяцев назад

It sounds like an SSL issue. What service did you end up using? Could have a look online to see if anybody else has the same problem

@muhammadrasul1581 10 месяцев назад

i have a question regards hosting and its for database, how can i get the data saved in the database to my pc, i want to host my api but the data is very sensitive and i want to save them into my pc when there was a data in the database, another question i have is, i have only made an api and used express js, but i dont have a website services because the whole api is serving in a REST kind of situation, in that case what should i do?

@RaddyDev 10 месяцев назад

You can get a local database. You can install MongoDB locally or pretty much any SQL database of your choice. It would be a matter of transferring the data... I don't know your use case to answer the second question. I guess you can create a website and display the data from your API... Why did you create the Rest API? What was the plan behind it?

@anyflix131 11 месяцев назад

I might be late to ask byt can you tell are there any platform like cyclic but more app I can host

@RaddyDev 11 месяцев назад

That would be Render dot com

@iliyalim9943 4 месяца назад

does anyone know how to deploy a nodejs app without revealing sensitive data? data inside the dotenv file

@RaddyDev 4 месяца назад

Don't upload your .env file on Github, make sure that your server is secure and try to rotate your keys. Depending on the service you use, you can also restrict the use of the key and add usage limits. If you want to go deep, you could look into AWS Secrets Manager and Google Cloud Secret Manager.

@geekinactionn 11 месяцев назад

Do I need to have my server in separate project from my frontend stuff?

@RaddyDev 11 месяцев назад

It's up to you. You can have them in one folder like that: Project Folder - Server (NodeJs) -- index.js -Client (Something) -- index.html There is also another option, called Monorepo. I just don't know if all platforms have that option when it comes to deployment (possibly)

@bennyxu1895 5 месяцев назад

if i update the code on github, will the website get updated as well

@RaddyDev 5 месяцев назад

Yeah it will update your website automatically as soon as you push changes

@respectculture9959 Год назад

how about the database such as sql? where i can host it?

@RaddyDev Год назад

You could try Supabase. They have a fairly generous free tier. Are you after a free one? You could get a cheap VPS and install whatever you want on it

@Shubham_admin 5 месяцев назад

custom domain is paid in cyclic

@RaddyDev 5 месяцев назад

That's a shame. Could try Render, I think that I used a custom domain on a free tier project

@belfroutcsch9579 Год назад

how to add buildpack like heroku?

@RaddyDev Год назад

I am not sure, you'll have to look up in their docs

@nested9301 Год назад

shared hosting is great but iwant to know to vps hosting on windows 10 :(

@RaddyDev Год назад

I have mainly used VPS based on Linux. Never tried Windows... :/

@rickjosee Год назад

cyclic leaves the code open like replit?

@RaddyDev Год назад

On the free Cyclic tier you can connect private repository if this is what you mean. So they won't be open on GitHub

@mrmaster1231 8 месяцев назад

How many nodejs apps can render serve at a time in free tier?

@RaddyDev 8 месяцев назад

Webservices are limited by the number of usage hours your account has remaining. You get 750 free instance hours each month and they expire at the end of the month. If you exceed the monthly limit all of your free services will be suspended for the remainder of that month. I hope this helps :)

@samjacker 4 месяца назад

i have a server which is connected with mongodb can this work ?

@RaddyDev 4 месяца назад

You have your own MongoDB server? Yeah it should work as long as something is not blocking the connection

@samjacker 4 месяца назад

@@RaddyDev thank you it works pretty good

@user-db7de6zn7e Год назад

I would like to ask, is it like Heroku, has tinyDB, or connecting mySQL to build up SQL API?

@RaddyDev Год назад

They are both very similar to Heroku. Cyclic has the option of AWS DynamoDB and Render has the option of PostgreSQL. The Database - Superbase offers a very generous free tier that you can connect to any both of them

@mayankjirao8747 Год назад

I love you

@RaddyDev Год назад

I love you too

@sofiuzzaman-sofi 9 месяцев назад

I deploy. Its success but not getting live link why?

@RaddyDev 9 месяцев назад

There will be one somewhere on your dashboard

@fikrialfarizi5454 Год назад

Can i use golang ?

@RaddyDev Год назад

I don't know if you can. I assume not, but have a look around their website, you never know

@AtaGowani 2 месяца назад

Great video! Cyclic is unfortunately shutting down :(

@RaddyDev 2 месяца назад

That's a shame 😔

@leoMC4384 Год назад

Site says the limit for free users is 1 app and 10,000 API requests a day. So it's basically useless now.

@RaddyDev Год назад

The plans where updated recently and it's 10,000/month. It's quite generous, and I believe that the majority of people won't even come close to reaching that limit