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Great list. My personal choice is Netlify. With Netlify Functions and FaunaDB (also with a generous free tier), I have a full stack web app, complete with a da

• onion2k 6y ago
  FaunaDB's 50MB/day data output quota is tiny, and they explicitly state they don't have a hard cap or throttling so if you ever get hugged to death by a viral HN/Reddit/whatever post it's going to be expensive. That puts me off using it for anything publicly accessible.
  • johnmw 6y ago
    Do you (or anyone else) have any other suggestions for good low cost database/data layer services to work with these options? These free services are fantastic but the limitation is that they seem to be only for static sites (static in the sense that there is no data persistence).
    • onion2k 6y ago
      Firebase's free tier is enough to run a small startup on. The 1GB database size is small, but if you're only storing simple structured text records rather than media it goes a long way.
• bestest 6y ago
  I was first on Vercel free tier, yet one of my projects was a bit too resource hungry so they were kindly asking me to go for a paid tier. Before signing up for a paid plan I tried out Netlify. According to Netlify my functions were even more resource hungry, and they were deployed to USEAST AWS region, with no way of changing that (unless you're an enterprise) — yet my API endpoint is in Europe, so they took longer to execute (~1200ms each). Thus I finally went for the Vercel paid tier. They allow you to choose where your functions are deployed, so I've got ~300ms now. And they work better with Next.js apps, as on Netlify you have to jiggle around a bit more to get that working.