September 1, 2026 Deno Deploy metering refresh
We rechecked all 21 providers against first-party pricing pages. Published
plan prices still match for every host except Deno Deploy, which changed
how it meters compute and egress.
What changed Deno Deploy now publishes Active
CPU hours and memory time (Free: 10 hr / 150 GiB-hr; Pro: 50 hr /
750 GiB-hr), with Pro egress overage at $0.20/GiB. Free drops to 10
active apps and no volume storage.
August 28, 2026 Railway CDN, Fly Managed Postgres, Scaleway IPv4, Vercel storage
We checked four providers against their first-party docs and pricing
pages after material product changes.
What changed Railway now documents its free
built-in edge CDN, Edge Rules, and the Config as Code cutoff for the
IaC SDK.
Fly.io now includes Managed Postgres
plan prices and treats unmanaged Fly Postgres as Unsupported.
Scaleway now bills flexible IPv4 at
€0.005/h (~€3.65/month) in estimates and price notes.
Vercel now notes Deployment Storage at
$0.10/GB-month, with 10 GB included on Hobby.
August 27, 2026 Complete hosting data refresh
We checked all 21 providers and 22 hosting offerings. The published
plan prices still match the providers' official prices.
What changed DigitalOcean now includes
request-based autoscaling on shared plans, scheduled jobs, and the
private-preview limits of Scale to Zero.
Netlify now includes every Pro credit
tier, the generally available managed database, the account-wide
credit stop, and the default Free-plan badge.
AWS Lightsail now explains the exact
new-account credit offer and six-month Free plan.
Hetzner now includes its separate,
higher Singapore prices.
Vultr now documents its restricted
early-access free plan without presenting it as generally available.
August 7, 2026 More guides and clearer provider discovery
We made it easier to browse providers before starting the hosting
picker.
What changed Added ten focused guides for common hosting decisions. Added every provider to the homepage. Made free hosting options easier to find. Added community reviews for every provider. Rewrote the site with shorter, more conversational copy. August 6, 2026 Expanded the catalog to 21 providers
We completed the first full pricing check and greatly expanded the
provider catalog.
What changed
Added Laravel Cloud, AWS Lightsail, Azure App Service, Google Cloud
Run, OVHcloud, Contabo, Netcup, and Scaleway.
Corrected Railway's free plan, Unkey plan limits, DigitalOcean's
free tier, entry prices, and managed database costs.
Added Hetzner's shared CX plans and its June 2026 price increase.
Refreshed Deno Deploy with its current platform and pricing. Added price notes to comparisons and hosting path diagrams. August 4, 2026 HostingPicker launched
We launched HostingPicker at hostingpicker.dev on Cloudflare Pages.
The first version covered 12 providers and 13 hosting offerings.
What launched A four-question hosting picker with no client-side JavaScript. Hand-checked prices, free-tier rules, and provider gotchas. Detailed provider pages with features, charts, and tradeoffs. Pre-built comparisons and practical use-case guides. Source-backed community opinions with follow-up outcomes. 