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5 Cheap Ways to Deploy Docker Containers

Jonas Scholz on October 01, 2023

Hetzner, Sliplane, Render, Github, DigitalOcean - Picking a hosting provider for your next side project can be challenging, especially with all the...
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Luke Cartwright

I've been using digital ocean for a few years now. It's been good. However I've struggled with the logging sometimes.

Sometimes builds fail and I found recently I got a lot of lack of memory but it took a while to debug that and find the message.

However, it's great to connect to GitHub and it will deploy when pushed to master but that's pretty standard I guess.

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Jonas Scholz

So you are using the App Platform, and not Droplets? How does the pricing work for you?

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Luke Cartwright

I used droplets, I'm not sure about if there's a difference in pricing.

I pay $5 a month for 1 droplet. I started by using $200 credit such as my link - to try it out - m.do.co/c/b6731a07428c and continued using for 2 years now.

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Red Ochsenbein (he/him)

Caprover on a Contabo VPS

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Jonas Scholz

Oh yeah! Totally forgot about contabo, I actually used to host with them in ~2016 I think. Need to check them out again :)

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Jonas Scholz

How has your experience been with them, especially around reliability?

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Red Ochsenbein (he/him) • Edited

Rock solid (the only outage I had in years was self-inflicted, silly me), awesome support and always friendly. Really can't say anything bad about them.

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Jonas Scholz

Glad to hear that!

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Muhammad Tayyab Sheikh • Edited

I have been using Fly.io

Although the configurations take more than a few minutes but it very affordable with a lot of options for regions. Also provide postgreSQL DB.

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Jonas Scholz

Fly.io is pretty awesome, I really hope it works out for them, especially after their reliability issues. I loved how transparent they were!

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Kenney G

not even dev.to is free from these crappy listicle SEO advertisements -_-

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Juan Cruz Lapadula Plá • Edited

I'm building dockerdeploy.cloud. It's an option between managing a VPS and going to DigitalOcean. You can host Docker images or docker compose files for little money.

The pricing:
Docker Cloud Pricing

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Jonas Scholz

welcome to the club, I'm building sliplane.io :)

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Karl Conard

For more options to host Docker, a list of well-known and reputed providers can be checked here : alterwebhosts.com/cheap-docker-hos...

  1. Kamatera
  2. Vultr
  3. AWS
  4. A2Hosting
  5. DigitalOcean
  6. Jelastic
  7. Dokku
  8. Render
  9. Hostpresto
  10. Sloppy.io There are five or more hosts also mentioned.
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Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez

Any thoughts on Render vs Fly vs Railway?/O settled on the last one but I don't know if I'm missing out

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Jonas Scholz

I tried all of them, but only used render in production. I really like the simplicity of render, although it does get quite expensive once you need some beefier hardware