Free hosting providers for React

In this article, I am going to list 3 hosting service providers where you can host React applications. This article only aims for pricing metrics but not about how can you host the application. All these hosting providers have been used by me.

Table of contents

• Heroku

  • Pricing

• Netifly

  • Pricing

• Vercel

  • Pricing

• References

• Thank You ❤️

Heroku

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service supporting several programming languages. One of the first cloud platforms, Heroku has been in development since June 2007, when it supported only the Ruby programming language, but now supports Java, Node.js, Scala, Clojure, Python, PHP, and Go.

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Pricing

Heroku provides 550-1,000 dyno hours per month. To get 1000 dyno hours per month, you need to signup with a credit card. Even you don't have a credit card, then you can simply host your application by signing up by email. You'll get 550 dyno hours per month. You can run your server $$550÷30=18.3550\backslash div30\; =\; 18.3$$ hours a day.

Type	Amount
RAM	512 Mb
Number of process types	2
Dyno hours	550-1000

How to deploy React on Heroku

Netifly

Netlify is a San Francisco-based cloud computing company that offers hosting and serverless backend services for web applications and static websites.

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Pricing

Netifly does not allow you to host a standalone server on their platform. You can only have static sites or serverless functions. So, there is no concept like Dyno hours, RAM, etc. Instead, Netifly limits us in the amount of bandwidth used by the website.

Type	Amount
Bandwidth	100GB /month
Build minutes	300 minutes /month
Websites	unlimited
Serverless functions	125K per site/month

Vercel

Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance.
Our platform enables frontend teams to do their best work.

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Pricing

Vercel does not allow you to host a standalone server on their platform. You can only have static sites or serverless functions. So, there is no concept like Dyno hours, RAM, etc. Instead, Netifly limits us in the amount of bandwidth used by the website.

Type	Amount
Bandwidth	100GB /month
Build minutes	6,000 minutes
Serverless Function Execution	100 GB-hours
Edge Functions (Beta)	100,000 invocations per day

References

• Heroku

• netlify

• vercel

• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-deploy-react-app-to-heroku

• https://www.netlify.com/blog/2016/07/22/deploy-react-apps-in-less-than-30-seconds

• https://vercel.com/guides/deploying-react-with-vercel-cra

Thank You ❤️