Static app hosting
Services
Static app hosting
AWS S3
- Free tier: 5 GB of storage, 20000 GET requests, 2000 PUT requests, 15 GB data transfer per month
- Pros: ACL policies, Custom rules and MIME types, Supports expiration, Multiple regions world-wide
- Limitations: Free only for 12 months
Cloudflare Pages
- Free tier: Unlimited sites, Unlimited requests, Unlimited bandwidth, 1 concurrent build, 500 builds per month
DocEvent
- Free tier: Lets you transfer 200MB of FTP or sftp data, and 5000 operations, 5 accounts/users max
- Pros: Free FTP and SFTP server, 3 regions, us-east-1, eu-west-1, ap-southeast-2
- Limitations: Backend is your own S3 or S3-compatible bucket
- Exceeding the free tier: You can no longer login to the FTP service if you go over your free tier allowance
Firebase hosting
- Free tier: 1GB storage, 10GB/month transfer, Custom domain and HTTPS
- Pros: Includes CDN, Automatic HTTPS, Deployment versioning, URL rewriting (useful for HTML5 history API), Possible to define headers, Free web.app domain
GitHub Pages
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- Free tier: 1GB storage, 100GB bandwidth or 100K requests/month, 10 builds per hour
- Pros: Deploy with git, Provide automatic page generator, Automatic HTTPS
- Limitations: Only with GitHub
GitLab Pages
- Free tier: Completely free for cloud hosted, self hosted version of Gitlab available
- Pros: Use any static website generator, Custom domains
- Limitations: Only works with GitLab, No automatic HTTPS
Netlify
- Free tier: Unlimited sites, Custom domain, Automatic HTTPS, Open source projects get pro plan for free
- Pros: Deployment with git, Custom redirect rules, Webhooks and Notifications for integration with third party services, Form handling, User authentication handling, CMS
IONOS Deploy Now
- Free tier: 3 static projects with staging and 50 MB of storage each, Build workflow via GitHub Actions, No bandwith limitation, DDos protection, Geo redundancy, IPv6, Climate neutral hosting, GDPR compliant
- Pros: Automatic HTTPS, Custom domains, Deploy with git, Framework auto detection
- Limitations: Only with GitHub, Full LAMP support only in paid plans
Render
- Free tier: 100GB outbound bandwidth per month (unlimited inbound)
- Pros: Includes CDN, Deploy with git, Custom domains, Automatic HTTPS
Scaleway
- Free tier: 75 GB of storage, 75GB of bandwidth
Surge
- Free tier: Unlimited deployments, Unlimited bandwidth, Automatic HTTPS
- Pros: Deploy from CLI, Custom 404 pages
- Limitations: No custom redirects in free tier, No custom domain in free tier
Vercel
- Free tier: Unlimited websites, Automatic HTTPS, Deployment with git, Analytics for 1 project, sponsorship for open source projects
- Pros: Various starter templates, DNS management, Edge CDN, first-class support for Next.js
- Limitations: Free tier does not allow commercial usage