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Best Hosting for Developer (With Free Trial)

GoOnlineTools on May 25, 2021

Hi, If you’re a web developer, you need a web hosting provider that offers the cheapest hosting plan, best hosting features, and as well as excell...
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Owen Melbourne

Have steered away from Cloudways in the past due to hidden limitations on their systems and there was some shady dealings with them taking quotes/testimonials from people without consent and pretending they were talking about Cloudways and featuring them on the website 🤷🏻‍♂️

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GoOnlineTools

Cloudways is managed hosting that's why they didn't provide full control. If you want full control then try linode or digital ocean.

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Owen Melbourne

Not quite... Cloudways is effectively a Control Panel (with staff members) which sits on top of your linode, digital ocean, aws server. You have to pay Cloudways fees AND your hosting fees (they bundle into 1 cost).

Explained here: cloudways.com/en/pricing.php

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GoOnlineTools

I agree with you but in terms of management cloudways provide cpanel and CDN.

In you don't have server management knowledge then cloudways is good but if you have server management knowledge then try cloud providers directly.

I prefer you to try then you understand the difference in terms of pricing and control 😁

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Travis Fantina • Edited

I absolutely love my experience with DigitalOcean but lately I've realized that I don't want to spend my time provisioning Ubuntu servers, Nginx configurations, firewalls, etc. I have limited time to work on personal projects so for my personal projects I've been opting for Platforms as a Service that make hosting and deployments as simple as possible.

A few recommendations:

  • Heroku is the established contender in this arena, pretty simple deploys but powerful enough to be flexible.
  • Render I discovered this a few months ago, it's not overly flexible but it makes deploying a Rails app as easy as Vercel makes deploying a NextJS app.
  • Vercel I've only tried it with NextJS apps but deploying is a breeze.
  • Fly I haven't tried this one, heard good things and I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who had.
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