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What are the best Platform as a Service providers that have a free plan?

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10 Options Considered

Best Platform as a Service providers that have a free plan	Price	Price	License
-- OpenShift Online	-	Free (Online, Origin), 43,000$ (Dedicated), 50.00$/month (Online Pro)	Apache 2.0
50 Google App Engine	-	-	-
-- AWS Elastic Beanstalk	-	-	-
-- Convox	-	-	-
-- Azure App Service	Paid	-	-

OpenShift Online

Top Pro

Open source

OpenShift is an open source PaaS provided by Red Hat. See More

Top Con

Required hibernation

There is a required hibernation time for containers if you are in the Starter plan. See More

Specs

Price:Free (Online, Origin), 43,000$ (Dedicated), 50.00$/month (Online Pro)

License:Apache 2.0

Versioning:Follows Kubernetes Versioning

Top Pro

Small learning curve

Learning to use OpenShift is pretty easy. Most environments can be set up in a few simple steps and for everything else the official documentation and third-party resources are extremely helpful. See More

Top Con

Expensive

Pro plans is around 50.00 US$, which is a high price tag. You're better off with Origin and self hosting a cluster on that price. See More

Top Pro

Easily scalable

Openshift uses the PaaS instance/dyno model. It allows developers to deploy their code to a specified number of dynos. Each of these dynos is pre-configured to run a piece of the application that is hosted on them. For example, some of them can access the database, others can respond to HTTP requests or process background processes. Developers can define their processes and assign them a different task, this gives them granular control over their hosting service and performance of the application. See More

Top Pro

Autoscale support

You can set OpenShift to automatically scale your application depending on the traffic it's getting. See More

Top Pro

Can be used to introduce specialized tasks through the application hosted on it

Because of its high flexibility and customization power, OpenShift can be used to create specialized tasks for the application being hosted on it. For example, an entire array of dynos (also known as gears) can be dedicated to media transcoding in order to build a custom media converter infrastructure. See More

Top Pro

Built-in continuous integration

Continuous integration is not only built-in OpenShift, it's actually a standard part the workflow. See More

Google App Engine

Top Pro

Increases application speed considerably

Google App Engine integrates with Google's CDN out of the box and it distributes your application's assets through that, increasing loading speed considerably. See More

Top Con

No SQL database available

Google App Engine uses Google's NoSQL cloud database. There's no option to use a SQL database with your application. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use

Google App Engine is very easy to use. All you need to do is install the SDK (which in itself is easy as well, and the documentation is very heplful) and run the command needed depending on the type of project to deploy it. For example, to deploy a golang application, you run golang deploy inside the project folder and it will be automatically deployed. See More

Top Con

Problematic support even in the paid grade

Top Con

Not a core Google product faces uncertin future

Google is notorious with flipping on technology directions, this product is clearly not the focus of Google. See More

Top Con

Expenses are very hard to control

The monitoring for expenses is limited at best. See More

Convox

Top Pro

Only pay for the hosting

Since Convox itself is a free and open source software, you do not have to pay for using it. Developers only have to pay for the cloud hosting itself (in this case AWS instance) where Convox will be deployed. See More

Top Con

Only supports AWS

Convox is a PaaS that can be installed and deployed on existing AWS instances. There are plans to support other cheaper alternatives in the future, but for now only AWS is supported. See More

Top Pro

Open source

Convox is a free and open source software. See More

Top Pro

Can use Docker images and containers out of the box

Convox is built on Docker and deployments are made using Docker containers. Because of this, developers have a large number of existing Docker images to choose from with which they can customize their environment to suit their needs. See More

Azure App Service

Top Pro

Atlassian Connect for Bitbucket add-on

Bitbucket’s Connect architecture takes this a level beyond a simple “click to deploy” button. The ability of add-ons to add features into the user interface means you can configure your deployment environments without leaving Bitbucket. See More

IBM Cloud

Top Con

Hibernation for Lite plan

Lite plan subscribers are subject to hibernation of a app within 7 days, to reset this count, you need to show development activity. See More

Top Pro

Based on Cloud Foundry

As a certified Pivotal Cloud Foundry PaaS Provider, it supports all of Cloud Foundry's features. See More

Capuccino 's Experience

IBM Cloud's Cloud Foundry platform is a excellent hosting platform for Node.js apps, with similar deployment techniques as Heroku for deployments, it's a contender and a challenger for Heroku's dominance See More

Specs

Block Storage:Yes (Pay-as-you-go)

Services offered:Baremetal hosting, VPS hosting, Image Repositories, etc.

Kubernetes Support:Yes

Top Con

No Git deployments

If you got used to Git-based deployments, prepare to surrender as IBM Cloud Foundry does not support git-based deployments at this time of writing. See More

Top Pro

Logs retention

Logs retention on IBM Cloud is saved whenever you need it. See More

Top Con

Ephemeral storage by default

Like Heroku, once your app dies, the storage is completely destroyed. The instance's FS is intended only for scratchpad and not for persistence. However, ScaleIO scalable storage is available, but not available on this platform at this time of writing See More

Top Pro

No downtime/hibernation for Pay-as-you-go Free tier

If you subscribed to the Pay-as-you-go, they'll give you credits for the platform, and they will never shut down your instance. See More

Top Pro

Customizable with Buildpacks

Like Heroku, IBM Cloud Foundry is built with the standard Pivotal Cloud Foundry, meaning it supports all applications that has a official buildpack, or you could use Heroku's buildpacks if you fancy to use them. See More

Top Pro

Extensible with Addons

the IBM Cloud Service Catalogue for Cloud Foundry application is diverse, consisting of mostly IBM-offered solutions and third-party providers. See More

Top Pro

Multi-region Spaces

Cloud Foundry Spaces in IBM Cloud is Multi-region, you can select a region for a space with ease. See More

Top Pro

Free tier

Lite plan gives you 256MB of memory to run a app, and the Pay as you go free tier gives you a 512MB per app allocation. It's more generous than Heroku in many ways. See More

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Specs

Block Storage:No

Multiple providers:Yes

Services Offered:Cloud Hosting, DNS, Domain registration

Hasura

Top Pro

Deploy Any Custom Code

Host custom code in any language on this server with just a 'git push' (APIs, webapps, static-files). See More

Top Con

Hibernation in Free Tier

You have to make your app sleep for a specified period of time each month when using the free plan. See More

Praveen D's Experience

The BaaS APIs are powerful and makes app development quick and easy. git push to deploy saves the usual hassle of deployment. See More

Top Pro

Managed Infrastructure

Hasura provisions a managed server (single-node or a cluster) for you in minutes with Built-in APIs and Deployment Automation. See More

Top Pro

BaaS APIs

Each server comes with data, auth, filestore APIs (BaaS) backed by postgres, that instantly integrate with your app. See More

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