Why do we have so many free hosting websites
Hello, there are many free hosting websites, like vercel, github pages etc.
Why there are so many hosting websites? How are each one different from each other?
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the free tier is more like a "try me"
hmm but apart that what can a hosting website do more?
it also incentivises vendor locking your stuff
I mean the main goal is to host our website
well, github pages gets your public repo in exchange of you hosting for free
yeah I see
nothing is free then 😂
vercel has next.js
and that's vendor locked
yup I see, just wanted to know their differences, I wanted to host something just to know how to do it
do it, it's probably free
yep, from what I've heard, vercel and github pages are free (those which I know)
they are
but I think
vercel and github pages are for front end only?
don't think we can host our back-end?
you can use firebase
yeah or mongoDB also I think it has a free cloud version
firebase is a backend as a service
Everything is vender locked to a certain point.
eh, depends
but i see your point
ah ok didn't know that
that's why many people use it to build quick things
but I think it was recently criticized for its security vulnerability ?
If you are going to dismiss a tool that is considered "vendor locked" you will have to skip at least 90% of the tools you can use I think.
nobody dismissed anything here
No ik was more like just saying
Like idk inclusive talk or something idk
it's not inclusive talk, it just sounded like you came at me all aggro
but i was wrong, you didn't
Ye mb xd
If "someone"
and you're right, a big chunk of tools have vendor locking
i can't say if it is 90% or not, but a big chunk
I like Headless cms for this reason, cuz it's still is vendor locked but it's easier to switch out if you want to use another cms.
they want you to use their stuff
that's why aws has everything under the sun
even had nasal dragons
Ye was just a number I pulled out of my ass hehe
lol i know
but i got your point
It's just a question which tools is more vender locked and what are the pros vs cons of that.
all want to be as much as possible, while being usable by everyone
it's the same question as "why are there so many car brands" or "why is there more than one brand of cola"
welcome to capitalism 🤷
yup still remember your answer for a similar question, people love different things :p
Who's answer?
jochem
Also each of the different options are gonna focus on a different thing to be really good at.
Doesn't firebase only have serverless functions? Iirc it doesn't offer a vm backend that constantly runs?
Free for Developers
Developers and Open Source authors now have a massive amount of services offering free tiers, but it can be hard to find them all to make informed decisions.
Not all of this is hosting solutions but a decent amount is. Probably can find enough options for backend hosting in the
pass sectionAll hosting is not created equal either, you have "standard hosting" which can come with apache/cpanel, typically this is heavily dominated by shared hosting (resources for many people on the same box, no real good seperation).
"serverless hosting" Which is a big missnomer because yes it can just host static website but they are not really serverless. Vercel/Netlify are prime examples and really the main two (faik) that do this kinda infra. They can spin up node for serverless functions that do backend stuff at a cost of running those functions EVERY time.
Static hosting, this is github and others that only allow a static front end (that use client side fetch only).
VPS hosting which is a VM typically that you rent out resources at different values (unless you rent the whole box). But requires you to do most everything.
Can you do an express api with serverless?
I haven't actually tried it before
I assume you will need to refactor it
yes https://vercel.com/guides/using-express-with-vercel
I don't know if I would though xD (you want to talk about $$$ for all those function calls)
Damn
But that is the same for anyof them really ig
Then you also have to host the front end, unless you were doing the view with it too (you said rest api though)
Is a normal vps host like render better for api then
Well Apache host rather i guess
Idk I'm against Rest API's without a good reason to do it
Fullstack frameworks are sooooooo much better imo
I would do fullstack but I hate next js from a brief stint in it
So for now I'm going react + express
I mean you can do fullstack with Express
Whole reason it supports HTML templates
Wouldn't that require me to setup react server functions myself
No you wouldn't use React xD
Ah that yes I used EJS templating for few of the projects
I found it a bit unwieldy tho
Ya its not really a nuts and bolts framework like that, tbf I'm not really experienced with Express not a route I wanted to take (insert MERN meme)
I mostly took it because it's popular for jobs here and low level enough to get an understanding.
Would do svelte but no jobs!
Fair! SvelteKit is the best imo xD
More and more jobs for it though, its always gaining in popularity, just wish it was faster.. but you know tech.. and adoption and people only using whats currently popular != might be better.
More jobs for Svelte outside the US too 🙁
If I was EU I'd have a job using it*
Yeah. I wish it was faster too haven't seen any jobs for it here myself except some contractor stuff and some senior engineer
Free tier stuff is great for just getting a prototype personal thing launched. Something that you know won't get much traffic. Like i wrote a cloudflare worker that just acts as a proxy for github webhooks. That gets like 20 requests a week and it's perfect for those tiers
oh what's this