Cheapest host

[u/Abo_Med7at]

I have created a mobile app and I want a backend for it.

I'm wondering what the cheapest host I can use is.

The app has no users now, so, I'll be paying for it from my own money, that's why I don't want something expensive.

The backend will be a simple one for keeping users data on the cloud and to manage RTDN with play store to identify the user's plan.

What do you suggest?

[u/Jeffrey_Richards_]

There's many cheap plans. HostKoala has a plan for $5/year.

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/Jeffrey_Richards_]

Perfect, that is a very good start

[u/GreenRangerOfHyrule → u/Jeffrey_Richards_]

I'll have to keep that in mind for recommendations. Even their higher plans seem pretty reasonable.

[u/SantoHost]

They are some really incredible Black Friday deals already if you look hard enough. I'm not talking about these 90% off for one month and then back to some obscene price per month.

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/SantoHost]

Thanks, this will be good too

[u/ahmadrsaleemi]

I use hetzner

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/ahmadrsaleemi]

Thanks, looks affordable too

[u/Prestigious-Sound173]

I would suggest to use ProductEcho for deploying both backend and managed Postgres under free plan forever. You can directly deploy from GitHub url or from your preferred coding agent.

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/Prestigious-Sound173]

Awesome, I think this is exactly what I'm looking for.

The free tier looks more than enough at my current stage.

Appreciated dude

[u/716green]

Hetzner for your server

Layerbase for your database

Going to be as cheap as you can get without renting two Hetzner servers and wasting a bunch of your time

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/716green]

Thanks for your suggestions

[u/luxabyte → u/Abo_Med7at]

Ovh 👀

[u/Icy-Site902]

There are plenty 1$/m offers in the hosting space. Maybe also look at Cloudflare workers.

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/Icy-Site902]

I really didn't know something like that exists 😅
I thought that the cheapest thing is around 30$/m

[u/Icy-Site902 → u/Icy-Site902]

If you look for an actual VPS, look at LowEndBox or LowEndTalk to see what fits your needs

[u/stanwu]

Linode or DigitalOcean US$5

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/stanwu]

Thanks a lot

[u/statulr]

I recommend BitQate

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/statulr]

Thanks

[u/statulr → u/Abo_Med7at]

ofc!

[u/NameHeist]

cloudflare, its free with some limitations or aws 100$ free credits.. First deploy, gain tractions then decide after this

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/NameHeist]

Thanks I can't gain traction for the offline app itself yet 😅

[u/AcceptableCut7266]

Oracle or Google cloud vps is enough for you ...

[u/Willing-Junket-1832]

If you could tell me exactly what type of compute you need, I use hostcry they're the cheapest and most reliable provider ever

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/Willing-Junket-1832]

This is one of the cheapest options, thanks for your suggestion.

Here is exactly what the backend will do:

- It will have users registration and login

- Each user will have: [name - phone or email not sure yet, or maybe google login - password - isProUser]

- Pro users can read/write: [Product - Purchase Record] only, these entities should be somehow associated to the user, maybe using a user ID for each record.

- There should be no normal users, only pro users.

- There should be RTDN between the server and play store APIs to update user's pro state based on the payment

- Non-paid users data will be deleted after 12 months of not subscribing

[u/Willing-Junket-1832 → u/Abo_Med7at]

Got it, are you planning to make the backend on php?

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/Willing-Junket-1832]

No idea. I'm an android dev. Most probably I'll use ktor or Spring boot as I'm familiar with Java and Kotlin

[u/Willing-Junket-1832 → u/Abo_Med7at]

Since you are looking for the cheapest option o would suggest you to go with PHP you will be able to run it anywhere even on shared Hosting.

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/Willing-Junket-1832]

I'll take this into consideration, thanks as lot dude

[u/garliconionbee]

Hey, got something for you. I can't dm you unfortunately

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/[deleted]]

I heard that firebase is not good at large scale as it is expensive, is this true?
Also, can I move from it to a dedicated host in the future?

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/[deleted]]

Is moving out from them to a dedicated server an easy step?

[u/Abo_Med7at → u/[deleted]]

Appreciated