How Qovery simplifies Cloud Hosting

Who is Qovery?

Qovery is a platform that aims to simplify cloud hosting. For those that may not have heard, Qovery is a CaaS and aims to provide beginners an easy alternative to what is usually a complicated process, hosting applications on the cloud. Qovery tries to make cloud hosting easy, without the end user having to worry about deploying and maintaining.

But, let's dive deeper, how does it work? Well, Qovery uses the power of Kubernetes, the reliability of AWS and the simplicity of Heroku to host applications. Their engine source code is available on Github for everyone to contribute!

Who is it useful for?

Let's assume you're a beginner in the programming and cloud hosting world. You just built your shiny new website and exercising your frontend skills. You decide it's worth hosting somewhere, but don't know where and how. You see that there are a lot of options for hosting. AWS, Scaleway, Digital Ocean and many more. That's where Qovery comes in. With Qovery, you can host your app effortlessly in just a few clicks!

How do you deploy an app?

Now, how do you actually deploy an app? It's very simple. You just log in to the console, select your repo (Github and Gitlab supported currently), create any databases you may need, change the app configuration if you need to, and click Deploy! It's as simple as that! Qovery takes care of the rest, and in a few minutes, you should see your app is online!

How much does it cost?

Now, let's talk pricing. An application costs $0.000006 (6 decimals), including databases. That means 1 month and 1 app cost around $15 a month to host 24 hours a day 7 days a week. That's very cheap! That, of course, comes with limitations, for example you can't increase CPU and RAM resources, and hosting is done on the Qovery cloud account. Paid plans offer hosting with your own AWS, Digital Ocean and Scaleway account. For more information regarding pricing and how it works, you can check out this and this article. They offer a more in depth look at how it works.

Qovery offers a $45 initial sign up credit. After the credits are consumed, the user has to contribute to the community in order to receive more credits to host their apps. Qovery relies on user feedback, so the community plan does not accept a credit card. That is because Qovery is not a hosting platform. It's a way to give back to the developers. The only way to get credits is to contribute to Qovery. That includes contributing to any open source Qovery project, writing articles and more! You can check out how to contribute here!

Ambassador Program

Additionally, Qovery has an ambassador program (I'm one!). Ambassadors are people who are active within the community, help others with any issues they may have, contributing to documentation and much more! Ambassadors also get a few goodies for being active in the community! You can learn more about the ambassador program here!

What's next for Qovery?

Currently, the Qovery team is working on integrating Scaleway in their infrastructure so that users can use their Scaleway account to host their accounts there (it's in beta!). There is also a lot more planned, and you can take a look here! The Qovery team also has monthly Community calls where they introduce what's being worked on, what's next and answering any questions the community has! It's very interesting and most definitely worth a look!

Final thoughts

Qovery is a great platform for beginners that want to host their applications without needing much skill for Cloud Hosting and without having to worry about maintaining it. It's also perfect for small Startups looking to host their infrastructure without wanting to have to spend much time with it, and instead spend their time growing their business. It's definitely worth trying it out yourself!