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Changelog

We hand-check hosting prices and document every meaningful data update.

Netcup G12.5, Fly Machines RAM, Vercel and Unkey limits

We rechecked all 21 published providers against first-party pricing pages. Plan prices still hold for the other hosts. Four providers needed material updates.

What changed

  • Netcup moved new orders to G12.5. VPS 500 starts at €8.26 (2 vCores, 4 GB RAM, 64 GB SSD, 12-month, incl. VAT). Root Servers start at RS 500 from €12.93. Existing G12 contracts keep old prices.
  • Fly.io raised Machines RAM to $6.00/GB-month effective October 1. A shared-cpu-1x with 256 MB is about $2.27/month in Amsterdam; 1 GB is about $6.95. CPU and Managed Postgres prices are unchanged.
  • Vercel now documents 100 crons per project on every plan, with Hobby limited to once per day. Hobby Deployment Storage still includes 10 GB, but retention now keeps only the 3 most recent production deploys plus 3 most recent deploys of any type past the window.
  • Unkey per-instance ceilings are now Starter 2 vCPU / 2 GB and Pro 8 vCPU / 8 GB. Every Compute plan can use up to 5 regions per environment, including EU (eu-central-1). Dollar plan prices are unchanged.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Added Unkey and privacy-friendly analytics

  • Added Unkey to the hosting provider catalog.
  • Added self-hosted Plausible analytics to the site.

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.