About $2.02/month in Amsterdam if always on; less with scale-to-zero.
- Why it fits
- Dockerized apps that want low cost, fine control, or multi-region placement.
- How deploys work
- fly launch builds the image and deploys it; configuration lives in fly.toml and the flyctl CLI.
- The tradeoff
- You operate more of the stack yourself — especially the database.
1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD, 1 TB transfer.
- Why it fits
- Developers who want a cheap server near their users, wherever those users are.
- How deploys work
- You get root on a fresh Linux server; setup and deploys are yours to script.
- The tradeoff
- Fully self-managed, and the hour-based billing model is less forgiving than per-second rivals.
- You install, secure, and back up the database yourself.
1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB SSD, 1 TB pooled transfer.
- Why it fits
- Developers who want a proven, boring VPS with cheap bandwidth.
- How deploys work
- You get root on a Linux server; the Marketplace offers one-click apps for common stacks.
- The tradeoff
- Fully self-managed, with a smaller ecosystem than DigitalOcean's tutorials and tooling.
- You install, secure, and back up the database yourself.
