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A portfolio or personal site · database managed for me · growing traffic · whatever it takes · start over

Top match Serverless platform

Netlify

≈$20/mo Pro

3,000 credits/month; extra 1,500-credit packs cost $10.

Free option
Free: 300 credits per month with a hard stop. Commercial use is allowed; enough for a small site with modest traffic and few production deploys.
Why it fits
Static sites and frontend apps that deploy from Git and want a generous, mature workflow.
How deploys work
Connect the Git repo; pushes build and deploy automatically with previews for every pull request.
The tradeoff
The credit system makes bills hard to predict — traffic, deploys, and compute all drain one pool.
  • The managed database bills on top of this estimate.

Option 2 App platform

DigitalOcean App Platform

≈$24/mo Two 1 GiB containers

Horizontal scaling; database and extra transfer on top.

Free option
Free tier: 3 apps with static sites, 1 GiB of outbound transfer each per month. Extra static-site apps cost $3/month.
Why it fits
Apps that want git-push deploys inside a provider they can grow with.
How deploys work
Connect the Git repo or a container image; App Platform builds, deploys, and scales it.
The tradeoff
Weaker compute per dollar than a Droplet — the convenience premium is real.
  • The managed database bills on top of this estimate.

Option 3 Serverless platform

Deno Deploy

≈$30/mo Pro + request usage

A representative 10M-request month is $20 plus $10 request overage, before any CPU, memory, storage, or egress overage.

Free option
Free: 1M requests, 20 GiB egress, 10 Active CPU hours, 150 GiB-hours of memory time, 10 active apps, 5 custom domains, and 1 GiB of KV storage per month.
Why it fits
JavaScript and TypeScript sites, full-stack framework apps, and APIs that benefit from built-in previews, databases, cron, caching, and telemetry.
How deploys work
Connect GitHub for builds on every push or run deno deploy from the CLI; framework presets configure common JavaScript stacks automatically.
The tradeoff
It runs the Deno runtime, not Node itself, and its two-region managed footprint and metered Active CPU, memory, and egress trail broader competitors for heavy traffic.
  • The managed database bills on top of this estimate.

Ranked by ease of deploy for your stack, then by monthly cost — never by commissions. Estimates come from hand-checked public prices; the linked provider pages show every number and its caveats.